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stalks ; the integument is bright orange coloured and succulent ; 

 and the seeds resemble a drupe. The plant was first made 

 known to the world by Kt^mpfer in 1712, who found it in 

 cultivation in China, between 30 deg. and 55 deg. N. lat,, from 

 whence it was introduced into England in 1754, and afterwards 

 to the whole of Europe and the European colonies. This 

 species has also been found ni a fossil state ; and its allies were 

 formerly much more numerous, especially in the Jurassic 

 period. 



M. B. Renault in his " Cours de Botanique Fossile," 

 Quatrieme Annee, pp. 50-61, names seventeen fossil species of 

 this coniferous division. These are reported from Greenland, 

 England, Hanover, Spitzbergen, Central Russia, and Siberia 

 in the northern hemisphere ; and one {Salislniria or) CTinki/o 

 antarctica, from New South Wales. 



Feistmantel in the " Palteontologia Indica," Fossil Flora 

 of the Upper Gondwana System, Series II., Vol. I., 4, pp. 31-221, 

 and Plates XV. 6-9, XVI. 12, 13, describes and figures two 

 species, Ginhjo crassipes, Feist., and G. s.p. In the flora of the 

 Jabalpur Group, Series XL, 2, p. 98, the same author places a 

 plant, formerly arranged under Cyclopteris, as Ginkgo lohata. 

 Feist. ; and in the Fossil Flora of the Gondwana System, Series 

 XII., Vol. IV., Part I., a fragment of a Ginkgo from South 

 Rewah is figured in Plate III., fig. I. 



Fossil species closely connected with Ginkgo, are, Baiera, 

 F. Br., Trichopitys, Sap., Czekanomskia, Heer, Phoenicopsis, 

 Heer, Rhipidopsis, Schmal., Ginkophyllum, Sap., and {fide 

 Renault), Dicranophyllum, Grand 'Eury, and Whittleseya, 

 Neivherri/. Of these Baiera is separated from Ginkgo on account 

 of its compound dichotomously divided leaves, or cladodia, with 

 short leaf stalks, and narrow ribbon-like segments ; Ginkophyllum 

 by its decurrent leaves ; and Phoenicopsis by its leaves being 

 fasciculate at the extremity of branches, their bases surrounded 

 by many persistent scales. 



In the "Proc. Lin. Soc, N.S.W.," Vol. VIIL, Part I., 

 p. 131, the late Rev. J. E. Tenison- Woods described as a new 

 species a fossil plant from the Burnett River coal seams, Queens- 

 land, which he named Jeanpauliahidens, and placed under the ferns 

 in the order Ophioglossacete ; in his notes he draws attention to 

 its resemblance to a living fern, Hehninthostachys zeylanica. In 



