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Our knowledge of the organs of reproduction is hardly sufficient 

 to enable us to diagnose the flowers or seeds. No well-marked 

 veins can be detected on the leaves, but the surface is finely 

 striated ; in all probability the substance of the leaf was too thick 

 to allow of the slender veins being visible externallj\ 



V. 3685. Text-fig. 49. Also Lindley & Hutton, pi. cxxi. a. 

 Several imperfectly preserved leaves converging towards a sup- 

 porting axis, which is not preserved. The bladder-like swellings 



Fig. 50. Czekanoivslcia Murrayana (L. & II.). No. V. 3684. (Nat. size.) 



represented in the figure of the Fossil Flora are not present in 

 the specimen, but no doubt the uplifted pieces of the lamina have 

 become detached from the surface of the shale since the original 

 drawing was made. 



V. 3684. Text-fig. 50. This is one of the few specimens which 

 shows any trace of the short axis and the scale-leaves ; the short 

 leaf bent downwards close to the axis may be a detached scale-leaf,. 

 as figured in similar specimens by Heer. 



