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specimens do belong to the same species, for P. oblonyus is 

 generally put among cones of (7dnt- affinity, while Williamson's 

 specimen is clearly of A'nws- affinity, for, as he says, the scales 

 show " a slight thickening of those extremities resembling what 

 is seen in Pinus Strobus and P. Cembra" Williamson also 

 demonstrated that the seeds had large wings and were borne 

 two on each scale, but his illustrations of the sections arc very 

 diagrammatic. 



Text-fig. 3.P-inoatrobus obhvgus (Limlley & Hutton). Exterior of the 

 fossil, and the same split open mediaulj. Nat. size. After Lindley & 

 Hutton. 



I think there is very little doubt that this cone is really 

 allied to Pinus , and is not a Cedrus, so that the inclusion of the 

 true Cedrus-like cones from France in this species by Fliche 

 (1896) is best abandoned (see p. 145). 



[Many specimens from different localities have been ascribed 

 to this species, but I do not feel sure that they really belong to 

 to it (see, for instance, p. 143),] 



