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between these bundles and the leaf-traces of Protopteris punctata, 

 Sternb., is fairly close. Other portions of this specimen demon- 

 strate very clearly the mode of origin and course of the petiole 

 bundles. The tangential section of the wood, close to the inner 

 (pith) face, presents the same appearance as figured by Carruthers 

 (pi. Ivii. fig. 6). 



V. 3236. Figured by Carruthers, loc. cit. pi. Ivii. figs. 1 and 2. 



The figured portion is the smaller half of a fine specimen in the 

 Museum Collection. The surface is made up of triangular cavities 

 which constitute the meshes in a network of projecting ridges of 

 interpetiolar ramenta. A few inflorescences, or rather the cavities 

 originally occupied by inflorescences, are seen in surface view, 

 and also in the longitudinally cut face represented in Carruthers' 

 figure. The woolly or finely fibrous ramenta appear to be identical 

 with the corresponding interpetiolar structures in some specimens 

 in the Kufford Collection from Ecclesbourne (cf. V. 3177, V. 2349, 

 and V. 2132). There is a distinct similarity between the slightly 

 raised base forming the floor of one of the inflorescence cavities, 

 and the rounded receptacle seen in some of the Ecclesbourne 

 examples of isolated inflorescences (Bennettites \Williamsonia\ 

 Carruthersi}, e.g. V. 21295, etc. Brook Point. 



38363. A waterworn specimen showing petiole base projecting 

 somewhat beyond the ramental network. Cf. V. 3234 (pi. Ivii. 

 fig. 4) and 38360. Solms x refers to this and some other specimens 

 as no doubt examples of Bennettitece, but without traces of fructifi- 

 cation. An old label on the specimen gives Tilgate as the locality ; 

 this has been altered to Brook. Brook. Mantell ColL 



Cf. Bennett it es Saxbyanus. 



V. 2132. Part of a large stem, resembling the specimen of 

 Bennettites Saxbyanus figured by Carruthers in pi. Ivii. fig. 3. 

 The external surface shows numerous imperfectly preserved leaf 



Solms-Laubach (2), p. 426. 



