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Prom the Iguanodon quarry at Maidstone, Kent. 
8. P. patens, Car., Geol. Mag. iii. 243. Cone ovate-acuminate; 
scales leaving the slender axis at a right angle, and supporting large 
seeds (Plate LIX. Fig. 4). 
The single specimen of this cone, which shows only a longitudinal 
section through the axis, is sufficiently different from the last species 
to warrant its being separated as distinct. The seeds are large, and in 
section of an oblong form. 
From the Iguanodon quarry. 
9. P. Filtoni, Car., Geol. Mag. iii. 543. Cone ovoid, truncate at 
the base, tapering upwards ; apophysis of the scale pyramidal, witl 
ridge across it ; umbo terminating the apex of the pyramid. "A cone, 
Fitton, Geol. Trans., 2nd series, vol. iv. p. 230, pi. xxii. fig. 9. 
Damnuirites Fitton}, Ung., Gen. et Sp. Pi. Foss. p. 384. 
This cone is said by Fitton to have cc some slight resemblance to the 
cone of a Dammara of the Moluccas." He must have made a slip of 
the pen in this statement, or transferred a note in regard to one fossil 
by a mistake to this, for his very characteristic drawing, on the face of 
it, contradicts his supposed resemblance. The cone has much more 
affinity to the Scotch Fir, but on the faith of this supposed M slight 
resemblance," linger, in giving the fossil a name, places it in the genus 
Damhiarites ! 
The cone is an inch and half long by a little over an inch broad. 
The apophyses of the scales in the middle of the cone are about twice 
as long as deep. They are pyramidal, having a sharp keel which runs 
across the whole of the scale. The umbo has terminated the apex of 
the paraphysis, but only the cicatrix is seen, and from the direction it 
takes the umbo seems to have had a somewhat downward direction, as 
in Pinns rigida. The fossil in other respects very much resembles this 
species, except in its smaller size. 
The cone is labelled from Purbeck, without locality or name of 
collector. 
10. P. elongatus, Endl., Synops. Conif. p. 286. Cone elongated, 
cylindrical; scales veiy broad and thin. — Strchilites elongatus, Lindl. 
and Hutt, Fossil Flora, vol. ii. p. 23. t. 29. 
I know this fossil only from Lindley and Hutton's drawing and de- 
scription. It appears to be a true cone, but so fragmentary that until 
additional specimens are obtained nothing satisfactory can be made of 
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