OF LOAVER GREENS AND PLANTS. 137 



Pinostrobus patens (Carrutbers), comb. DOV. 

 [Text-fig. 35.] 



1866. Pittites patens, Camithers, Geol. Mag., vol. 3, p. 543, pi. xxi, 

 fig. 4. 



1867. Pinites patens, Carruthers, Jouru. Bot, vol. 5, p. 15, pi. lix, 

 fig. 4. 



1870. ? Abictites patens, Schimper, Traite Paleont., vol. 2, p. 308. 

 1886. Pinites paten*, Gardner, Rep. Brit. Assoc., 1885, p. 24o, 

 and Geol. Mag., dec. 3, vol. 3, p. 499. 



Diaf/twsis. Given by Carruthers as follows: "Cone ovate- 

 acuminate; scales leaving the slender axis at a right angle, and 

 supporting large seeds." 



m 



Text-fig. 35. Pinostr alms patens (Carr.), comb. nov. Nearly nat. size. 

 After Carruthers. No. 46655. 



To this should be added : Axis 3*5 cm. long ; the small cone 

 is only 1-8 cm. at its widest part, narrowing down rapidly. 



HORIZON. Kentish Hag, Lower Greensand. 



LOCALITY. Iguanodon Quarry, Maidstone. 



TYPE. No. 46,655 ; British Museum (Nat. Hist.). 



Only one specimen of this cone appears to have been found, 

 and, as Carruthers says, it " shows only a longitudinal section 

 through the axis, and is sufficiently different from the last 



