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nearly vertical but in most species they become widely extended 

 and on older branches may be reflexed as in some Lycopods 

 (fig. 121, B, Vol. n. p. 35). There is some evidence that the pith 

 was discoid as in Cordaites 1 . The microsporophylls are said to 

 be borne in small ovoid strobili in the axils of foliage leaves, but 



FIG. 671. Dicranopkyllum gallicum. A, piece of a stem showing leaf- 

 cushions. B B, foliage-shoot and leaves. (After Grand'Eury.) 



only evidence as to their structure so far adduced is furnished 

 by an imperfectly preserved specimen described by Zeiller 2 

 associated with a shoot of Dicranophyttum robustum but not 

 actually attached ; this consists of a small axis expanded into 



1 Renault and Zeiller (88) A. PL LXXI. figs. 3, 4. 



2 Zeiller (78) PI. x. figs. 1 a and 3. 



