THE EVIDENCE 89 



In habit, as we have seen, the species of Ben- 

 nettites and its immediate allies were altogether 

 Cycadean there was no approach to the external 



Fig. 11. Wielandiella angustifolia. Restoration of part of 

 plant, showing the forked stem, the leaves and the flowers. 

 After Nathorst. 



characters of any family of the higher Flowering 

 Plants. But when we come to take a wider view 

 of the group, we find that this Cycad-like habit 



