12 ON GYMNOSPEKMATOUS FRUITS 
The cone is smaller than P. macrocephalus, and can readily be dis- 
tinguished from it by the form of the apophyses of the scales, which 
are longer than they are broad, and quadrangular or subquadrangnlar, 
the upper and lower angles being acute or but slightly truncate. 
They both agree in the great size of the scales at the base of the cone, 
a structure peculiar to these two species, but not sufficient, as it ap- 
pears to me to separate them from the genus Pittites. A transverse 
section of the specimen in the Museum, exhibiting the structure beau- 
tifully preserved, shows that it had a slender axis, the centre of which 
is occupied with cellular tissue, and surrounded by a cylinder of wood. 
Being transverse, the section cannot exhibit the disks on the vascular 
tissue, but it exactly agrees with transverse sections of recent cones. 
A regular series of large ducts are arranged symmetrically around the 
axis. Each scale supports two seeds. The tissue of these has entirely 
disappeared, the cavity being filled with carbonate of lime. Three 
other scales are seen beyond that bearing the seeds in the section, Plate 
LYIII, Fig. 4. 
The Cowderoy specimen is without locality, and that described and 
figured by Lindley and Hutton is a rolled fossil, which was found upon 
the coast of Kent, near Faversham. These authors refer it to the 
Greensand, because of its affinity to their Z. macrocephala ; for the same 
reason I consider it more likely to be of Tertiary age, and the locality 
where it was found would favour this opinion rather than the other. 
3. P. oblongus, EndL, Synops. Conif. p. 284. Cone cylindrical ; 
scales broad and thin at the apex, with the seeds very near the base; 
axis slender.— Abies oblonga, Lindl. and Hutt., Fossil Flora, vol. ii., 
p. 155, pi. 137. Ahietites oblonrjus, Gopp., Fossil. Conif. p. 207. 
I know this species only from Lindley and ILuttons drawing and 
description, who believe it to be from the Greensand Cliff, near Lyme 
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Cone oval ; scales 
broad and thin at the apex, leaving the thick axis at a right angh 
then ascending beyond the seed.—Abies Betisledi, Mant., Quart Journ. 
Geol. Soc. vol. ii. p. 52, pi. ii. hg. 2. Jbietites Benstedi, Gopp., Fossil. 
Couif. p. 217. 
The single cone described by Mantell, and on which the species is 
founded, is now in the British Maternal. It is an inch and five-eighths 
long and one and a quarter broad. It is nearly perfect. The section 
