Rees Cyclop.art.

Pinus.) In the same year in which Mr.Lambert's work appeared, Schkuhr* describes, and very distinctly figures, the female flower of Pinus, exactly as it was understood by Trew, whose opinion was probably unknown to him.
(*Footnote.

Botan.Handb.3 page 276 table 308.) In 1807, a memoir on this subject, by Mr.Salisbury, was published,* in which an account of structure is given, in no important particular different from that of Trew and Schkuhr, with whose observations he appears to have been unacquainted.
(*Footnote.

Linnean Society Transactions 8 page 308.) M.Mirbel, in 1809,* held the same opinion, both with respect to Pinus and to the whole natural family.

But in 1812, in conjunction with M.
Schoubert,** he proposed a very different view of the structure of Cycadeae and Coniferae, stating, that in their female flowers there is not only a minute cohering perianthium present, but an external additional envelope, to which he has given the name of cupula.
(*Footnote.