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GINKGOITES 



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collected byJSir Leopold McClintock enables me to confirm Gard- 

 ner's view as to the identity of S. borealis and S. adiantoides. 

 Examples of G. adiantoides were also obtained from Atanekerdluk 1 

 on the Noursoak peninsula to the north of Disco Island. Heer 



FIG. 644. Ginkgoites adiantoides. From Eocene beds in the Island of Mull. 

 (British Museum, V. 1060.) 



figures a very well preserved leaf with a long petiole from Atane- 

 kerdluk which he refers to S. adiantoides. In a later account of 

 this flora he refers the species to Ginkgo. Heer regarded these 



1 Heer (68) i. p. 57, PL LXXVII. figs. 912; PL xvn. fig. 14. 



