OF LOWER OEEENSAXD PLANTS. 



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sandy matrix between the scales show that the cone was 

 furnished with foliaceous bracts, and the marks of a boring 

 insect are visible." 



HORIZON. Lower Greensand. 



LOCALITY. Potton . 



TYPE. Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge. 



Gardner continues his description to point out that " the 

 specimen, which is quite distinct from any other fossil or recent 

 cone, is singularly elongated and cylindrical, scarcely tapering 

 at all from the base upward." His figure is reproduced in text- 

 fig. 36, where it will be seen that a detailed description or com- 

 parative account of the specimen is not practicable. 



Text-fig. 36. Pinostrohus cytindroides (Gardner), comb. nov. View of the 

 cone and a detached scale. X about f . After Gardner. 



That this specimen is really a Lower Greensand, and not an 

 older derived form, is vouched for by Gardner, who says, " it is 

 fortunately in excellent condition, certainly not derived from 

 any older beds, like so many of the Potton fossils." Seward, 

 on the other hand, says (1895, p. 193): "An inspection of the 



