138 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE 



species [Pinites Mantellii, see Cedrostrobus Mantellii, p. 145] to 

 warrant its being separated as distinct. The seeds are large, 

 and in section of an oblong form." 



As will be realised from text-fig. 35, it is almost impossible 

 to compare this specimen with Cedrostrobus Mantellii (see 

 p. 145) from the same locality. There appears to be no proof 

 that they really differ, but one is represented by a cast of the 

 outside and the other by a poorly preserved cone split open down 

 the centre. It is less confusing to retain the original names 

 than to unite them. 



46655. Figured, Carruthers, Geol. Mag. vol. 3, pi. xxi, fig. 4 ; 

 also text-fig. 35. A block of hard Kentish Hag 

 (5x4x4 cm.) in which the small cone lies split open 

 centrally. The plant-tissue more or less remains in 

 a friable and broken-up condition. Iguanodon Quarry 

 (Kentish Hag) ; Maidstone. 



[Probably from W. II. Bengted, EsqJ] 



Pinostrobus cylindroides (Gardner), comb. nov. 

 [Text-fig. 36.] 



1886. Piniles cylindroides, Gardner, Rep. Brit. Assoc., 1885, p. 24-">, 



pi. vii, figs. 2, 2 a. 

 1886. Pinites cylindroides , Gardner, Geol. Mag., dec. 3, vol. 3, 



p. 499. 

 1895. Pinites cyUndroides, Seward, Cat. Wealden Flora, vol. 2, 



pp. 193, 194. 



Diagnosis. The description given by Gardner is as follows : 

 '* This is an almost perfectly cylindrical specimen, being very 

 slightly thickened towards the base, 7 centimetres in length and 

 22 millim. in diameter, composed of about 96 scales, arranged 

 in 12 rows from left to right, and 8 rows from right to left, the 

 arrangement thus being fy. The scales are short and at right 

 angles to the axis, with a smooth, flat, half-moon-shaped 

 apophysis or scale-head, now gaping, but evidently imbricated 

 before the seeds were shed. The scales become very small 

 towards the base. The summit is abraded, exposing the end 

 of a somewhat slender axis. Certain grooved lines on the 



