. The vegetable kingdom : or, The structure, classification, and uses of plants, illustrated upon the natural system. Fiff CLV. Fig. CLIV.—Pinus sylvestris. Fig. CLV—1 side view of an antlier; 2. carpellary scale and pair of inverted ovules- 3 inside ofripe scale and seeds; 4. section of the seed, minus the wing at its base. ^ ^^^^ *^- ^^^^ ^f Gymnogens.] PINACEiE. 227 formed of the scale-shaped ovaries, become enlarged and hardened, and occasionally ofthe bracts also, which are sometimes obliterated, and sometimes extend beyond thescales in the form of a lobed appendage. Seed with a hard cini
. The vegetable kingdom : or, The structure, classification, and uses of plants, illustrated upon the natural system. Fiff CLV. Fig. CLIV.—Pinus sylvestris. Fig. CLV—1 side view of an antlier; 2. carpellary scale and pair of inverted ovules- 3 inside ofripe scale and seeds; 4. section of the seed, minus the wing at its base. ^ ^^^^ *^- ^^^^ ^f Gymnogens.] PINACEiE. 227 formed of the scale-shaped ovaries, become enlarged and hardened, and occasionally ofthe bracts also, which are sometimes obliterated, and sometimes extend beyond thescales in the form of a lobed appendage. Seed with a hard cinistaceous in the midst of fleshy oily albumen, with 2 or many opposite cotyledfms ; theradicle next the apex of the seed, and having an organic connection with the albumen. With the exception of Orchids, there is perhaps no Natmal Order the structiue of whichremauied so long and imiversally misimderstood as that of Conifers. This has arisenfrom the anomalous nature of their organisation, and from the investigations of botanistsnot having been conducted with that attention to logical precisio
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