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AT a time when botanists of some repute are not ashamed to confess their inability to deduce satisfactory characters for the determination of plants from their internal anatomy, old workers in this field may well turn back to refresh their memories on such points, and to inquire whether their eyes may not have deceived them in the investigations of former years when microscopes were not what they now are. In doing this a few days ago in connection with the examination of a carboniferous conifer, I was surprised to find that I had overlooked or omitted to note the fact that the Balsam Fir of Canada (Abics balsamea), which affords the well-known Canada-balsam, has that curious structure of pith well known in Palæozoic Conifers, and which has been named Sternbergia. It is well seen in young twigs one or two years old, and though on a smaller scale, is very similar to that of Dadoxylon materiarium of the upper coal-formation of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, as I have figured this in my recent report on the geology of the latter province.
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DAWSON, J. A Modern Sternbergia . Nature 8, 53 (1873). https://doi.org/10.1038/008053a0
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