176 THE MEDALS OF OREATION. Cuap. VI. 
are flat, in Altingia excelsa, quadrangular ; in the fossil the 
leaves are short, fleshy, arranged spirally, and inserted. 
Licn. 59. Fig. 1.—PArt oF A BRANCH OF ARAUCARIA PEREGRINA; nat. 
Lias, Lyme Regis. 
2,—CALAMITES Novosvus with foliage; nat. Coal-shale, 
(see ante, p. 109). 
PrnITES ; a name applied to those fossil leaves and fruits 
which agree in their general character with the recent genus 
Pinus ; upwards of thirty species are known.* In the Pines, 
as botanically distinguished from the Firs (Adves), the leaves 
* See Endlechen’s Synopsis Coniferarum. 
