OF LOWER OREEXSAXD PLANTS. 



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rounded at the corners to fit into each other, but this is much 

 less the case in the outer rings of the wood, where the elements 

 are rather squarer (PI. XXII, fig. 1). 



Xyleni -parenchyma containing resin is thickly scattered 

 through the whole width of the wood-rings. 



Text-fig. 08. Podocctrpo.ri/ZonSolmsi,sp.nov. Tangential section of the wood, 

 showing the characteristic resin-containing xyleni-parencliyina, rp,, 

 the traclieids, t., and the low medullary rays, m. No. V. 2117 h t 



Normal resin-canals are entirely absent, and in the tj*pe- 

 specimen I have not detected any traumatic canals. In the 

 second specimen, however, toward the outer rings, where there 



