260 MISS H. BANDULSKA ON THE CUTICULAR STRUCTURE OF 
There are very close points of resemblance between Sequoia gigantea, 
Araucarites Göpperti, and Araucaria excelsa. The following table will show 
how close the resemblances are :— 
Sequoia gigantea. Araucarites Gópperti, | A. excelsa. 
Leaf. Length 5-8 mm. 6-10 mm. 6-15 mm. 
Width 1 mm. 2 mm. 1-2 mm. 
Cuticle :— Poral Aves. 
Long axis ‘022 mm, ‘03 mm. 033 mm. 
Short ,, :009 mm: ‘017 mm. ‘014 mm. 
Cells of the Poral Ring. 
Long axis ‘031 mm. i 024 mm. ‘04 mm. 
| Short ,, ‘019 mm. | ‘012 mm. | ‘02 mm. 
Epidermal Cells between two stomatal series. 
Long axis ‘064 mm. ‘042 mm. ‘058 mm. 
Short ,, ‘019 mm. ‘010 mm. ‘010 mm. 
Epidermal Cells between two adjacent stomata 
in the same series. 
| Long axis ‘032 mm. — 025 mm. 026 mm. | 
Short , ‘019 mm. ‘012 mm. ‘016 mm. | 
| 
The poral ring cells are distinctly larger in Araucaria excelsa than in 
Araucarites Güpperti, whose measurements in this respect agree more 
closely with those of Sequoia gigantea, but when the sum total of the various 
measurements of these three leaves is estimated, it seems to point to the 
Araucarian relationship of A. Güpperti. 
TAXODIUM EUROPÆUM (Brongn.). 
Its external characters have been figured by Gardner (1883, pl. 3. fig. 3). 
Specimen V. 15072 was examined by the writer for anatomical investigation, 
in the hope of obtaining confirmatory evidence of its true generic character, 
since none of the Bournemouth fossils so-named possess cones, though the 
material named Tawodium europeum by Brongniart from Tertiary beds in 
Greece possessed cones. - 
External Characters.—These have been described by Gardner. Leaves 
imbricated, closely adpressed, decurrent, and alternate in arrangement, small, 
and acute or obtuse. Scale-like and triangular forms occur near the base 
of the shoots, while near the shoot-tips they are a little longer, awl-shaped 
and recurved. Average length 2:2 mm. Average width ‘57 mm. The 
recurved character of the leaves is comparable with that of Glyptostrobus. 
