ARA.TJCARITES. 285 



Class COXIFERtE. 



Order ARAITCARIIN^. 



Genus ARAUCARITES, Presl. 

 [Flor. Yorwelt, vii. p. 203, 1838.] 



Araucarites Phillipsi, Carruthers. 



[Geol. Mag. vol. vi. (1), p. 6, pi. ii. figs. 7-9, 1869.] 

 (PL X. Fig. 4.) 



1869. Araucarites PhUUpsii, Carruthers, Geol. Mag. vol. vi. [l],p. 6, pi. ii. 



figs. 7-9. 



1870. Araucaria PhUUpsii, Schimper, Trait, pal. veg. vol. ii. p. 254. 

 1872. Araucarites PhUUpsii, Balfour, Palaeout. Botany, pi. ii. fig. 11. 

 1875. Araucarites PhUUpsii, Phillips, Geol. Yorks. p. 229, pi. x. fig. 5. 

 1888. Araucarites PhUUpsii, Schenk, Foss. Pflanz. p. 171. 



1890. Araucaria PhUUpsii, Schenk, in Zittel, p. 280. 



1892. Araucaria PhUUpsii, Fox-Strangways, Tab. Foss. p. 136. 



Type-specimen. In the Leckenby Collection, Cambridge (No. 305). 



The species Araucarites PhUUpsii was founded by Carruthers ou 

 some single scales, and on an imperfect rolled specimen of a female 

 cone. He gives the following description : 



"Scales from the centre of. the cone cuneate, nearly as broad as 

 long, lower scales thickish throughout, without membranous 

 wings." 



The detached scales of this species are frequently met with in 

 collections of Inferior Oolite plants, but no good specimen has been 

 found showing the cone as a whole. Occasionally single seeds are 

 found detached from the scales ; these are elliptical in form, and 

 slightly more than 1 cm. in length. Although the material on 

 which Carruthers founded his species is somewhat meagre, there 

 can be no reasonable doubt that it affords trustworthy evidence of 

 the existence of cones of the Araucarian type. The occurrence of 



