286 CRYPTOMEEITES. 



Araucarian cones in the "Wealden rocks of Sussex 1 and such 

 specimens as Araucarites IFudlestoni, Carr., 2 from the Coralline 

 Oolite of Yorkshire, affords proof of the comparative abundance 

 of Araucarian species in Mesozoic floras ; but as yet we are not in 

 a position to do more than suggest what form of vegetative shoots 

 were borne by these species of Araucarites. It is, however, very 

 probable that the twigs of "Wealden and Inferior Oolite age referred 

 to Fontaine's genus Nageiopsis and Bunbury's species Cryptomerites 

 clivaricatus were borne by plants closely allied to Araucaria. 



The English Jurassic species may be compared with the Indian 

 specimens described by Feistmantel as Araucarites cutchensis 3 and 

 A. kachensis} Similar, but somewhat larger, cone-scales have 

 been described by Saporta under the name Araucaria Moreauana. 



As Carruthers has pointed out, Araucarites Phillipsi agrees most 

 closely with the recent species of Araucaria included in the section 

 Columbea. 



39,317. PI. X. Fig. 4. 



A single scale showing the form of the central seed. Labelled 

 by Bean " seed of Cycadites." 



Scarborough. Bean Coll. 



V. 2640. A large slab of sandstone with single scales of 

 Araucarites and fragments of Brachyphyllum mamillare, Brongn. 



? ARAITCABIIM!. 



Genus CRYPTOMERITES, Bunbury. 



[Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. vii. p. 191, 1851.] 



Bunbury instituted this generic name as a designation for some 

 specimens of Coniferous shoots which he compared with Cryptomeria 

 japonica, Don, and species of Araucaria ; he uses the term " without 

 meaning to affirm" that the species so named "is truly a congener 

 of Cryptomeria japonica" 



1 Seward (95), p. 190, pi. xii. figs. 1 and 2. 



3 Carruthers (77). 



3 Feistmantel (76), pi. ix. figs. 1-3. 



* Ibid. (77 3 ), pi. xiv. 



