. Studies in fossil botany . Paleobotany. CORDAITEAE 537 is open to various interpretations. M. Renault regards the male " flower" as consisting of a group of two or three stamens at the apex of the catkin, but as reduced to a single stamen, where the position is axillary. Count Solms-Laubach prefers to regard each. Fig. 193.— Pcnjcni. * A. Longitudinal section of male catkin, a, axis ; />, sterile bracts ; c, filament, bearing the pollen-sacs (?) at the top ; d, junction of fila- ment with pollen-sacs \f, detached pollen-sac ; r1, apex of axis, with stamens around
. Studies in fossil botany . Paleobotany. CORDAITEAE 537 is open to various interpretations. M. Renault regards the male " flower" as consisting of a group of two or three stamens at the apex of the catkin, but as reduced to a single stamen, where the position is axillary. Count Solms-Laubach prefers to regard each. Fig. 193.— Pcnjcni. * A. Longitudinal section of male catkin, a, axis ; />, sterile bracts ; c, filament, bearing the pollen-sacs (?) at the top ; d, junction of fila- ment with pollen-sacs \f, detached pollen-sac ; r1, apex of axis, with stamens around it. x 6-\. B. Stamens, more highly magnified, g, vascular bundle of filament, sending branches to the pollen-sacs ; c, pollen-sac after dehiscence ; e', sac still full of pollen ; /, apex of axis. Other letters as in A. X 23. Both after Renault. of Renault's " stamens" as itself constituting a male " flower," the stalk on which the pollen-sacs are borne thus representing a pedicel, and not a filament, while the pollen - sacs are themselves the stamens. On this view there would be a certain resemblance to the male flowers of Gnetaceae. In Gnetum, for example,. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Scott, Dukinfield Henry, 1854-1934. London, A. and C. Black
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