Conifere
an order of plants, one of those recognized in 1751, in the infancy of botany, by Linnæus. They be- long to the class or sub-class of Gymnosperms. They are fine trees or shrubs abounding in resin. Lindley divides it into two sub-orders, (1) Abieteæ, with the ovules inverted and the pollen oval, curved; and (2) Cupressex, with the CONJUNCTION Lake district, in N. Lancashire; at the E. foot of the Coniston Fells, 9 miles W. Epistles" of Horace (1869).