282 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE 



in marked contrast to the shorter rounder cells which sometimes 

 border the rays and have definitely pitted walls. 



The tissues are not particularly well preserved in this fossil, 

 thus adding to the difficulty of making a determination which 

 carries conviction. While suggesting some possible affinity 

 with Fac/ug, I feel that the affinities of this plant are an open 

 question. 



V. 13232. Two pieces from which sections have been cut. part 

 of the original type block in the Maidstone Museum. 

 The larger of the two pieces is 7 X 6 cm. in trans 

 verse section and about 3 cm. thick. It is the greater 

 part of the lower third of text-fig. 85. One end is 

 weathered and shows the rays weathered out so as to 

 be visible to the naked eye ; the other end shows tin* 

 cut surface as illustrated in the figure. The woody 

 texture is entirely free from matrix, and is petrified 

 in a clean, very hard medium which weathers cream- 

 coloured, and is <:rry with brownish streaks internally. 

 The second, smaller, piece is quite similar and has had 

 longitudinal sections also cut from two faces. 



V. 13232 a. Figured, PL XXIX, fig. 1. Transverse section of 

 the whole area of the larger block in the Museum, 

 showing the much contorted wide medullary rays. 

 At the bottom right-hand corner it is better preserved, 

 and the vessels can be clearly seen with the naked eye. 



V. 13232 b. Figured, PI. XXX, fig. 1. Transverse section of a 

 smaller portion of the same block. A small area 

 towards the centre of the slide is iron-stained and 

 shows the details more clearly than is usual in these 

 slides. The broad rays are very conspicuous, and the 

 numerous vessels, thickly scattered among the small- 

 celled wood-fibres and parenchyma, can be well seen. 



V. 13232 C. Figured, PI. XXX, fig. 2. Another, rather similar, 

 transverse section. In this the delicacy of the walls 

 of the vessels and of the ground-tissue is very apparent . 

 The long, very narrow medullary ray-cells can be well 

 seen in transverse view, and here and there the 

 shorter oval cells bordering the wide rays are also 

 well preserved. 



