
          but that each of the two, three, 
 or five so-called leaves of such 
 fascicle is a phylloid shoot. At 
 present I know nothing, and have 
 nothing to say about Sciadopitys,
 and if I ever read Dr. Dickson's 
 paper upon it I have forgotten 
 the substance of it. But I may
 remark, in passing, that the sentence
 you quote from him, "In
 Sciadopitys I have to call attention 
 to the fact that the leaves of the 
 growing shoots consist, as in Pinus,
 entirely of bud-scales," does not 
 imply (as you think) that he regards 
 the [crossed out: leaves] pine-needles (to use 
 a neutral term) as phylloid shoots; 
 he speaking here only of the primary 
 or scale-like leaves, the 
 bud-scales. I think it likely 
 that you are the sole propounder 
 of the theory that a pine-needle 
 is of the nature of axis, not of leaf.
        