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FIG. 759. Tdxo- 

 dites europaeus. 

 (After Heer; 

 nat. size.) 



says, it bears a striking resemblance to the existing Chinese type 

 Glyptostrobus heterophylius. Unger 1 describes well 

 preserved specimens from Greece and the species 

 is recorded, on the evidence of cones as well as 

 sterile shoots, from Leoben 2 and other localities in 

 Styria 3 , also from Miocene beds in Bohemia 4 . 

 Laurent 5 figures examples from Aquitanian beds 

 in the Puy-de-D6me and Saporta and Marion 6 

 refer to Glyptostrobus europaeus fragments of sterile 

 branches and an imperfect cone from Pliocene beds 

 in the Province of Ain and mention the occurrence 

 of the same type in Pliocene strata in the valley 

 of the Arno. Vegetative shoots are recorded from 

 Tertiary beds in Bosnia 7 and Nathorst 8 found the 

 species in Arctic Ellesmere Land. The sterile frag- 

 ments figured by Goeppert and Menge 9 from the 

 Oligocene beds on the Baltic coast, though possibly correctly 

 determined, afford no proof of affinity to the genus Glypto- 

 strobus. Some very good specimens from Eocene beds at Reading 

 are described by Gardner 10 as examples of this species but the 

 cones are immature and do not furnish convincing evidence of 

 close relationship to the recent genus. The same remark applies 

 to specimens figured by this author from Bournemouth. Specimens 

 from the latter locality, characterised by their long slender branches 

 with spirally disposed leaves having long decurrent bases and pro- 

 jecting apices, are referred to a distinct species Taxodiumeocaenicum 

 and compared with the Floridan Conifer Taxodium distichum var. 

 imbricataria Mett. Gardner points out with reason that specimens 

 described by Heer 11 from Miocene beds in Greenland and Alaska 

 as Glyptostrobus europaeus and from rocks of the same age in 



1 Unger (67) PI. i. 2 Ettingshausen (88 2 ) PL IL 



3 Ibid. (90) PL i. 



4 Ibid. (67 2 ) Pis. x., XL; Velenovsky (81); Unger (52) PL xxxiv. 



5 Laurent (12) Pis. v., vi. 



6 Saporta and Marion (76) Pis. xxin., xxxvii. 



7 Engelhardt (12) Pis. xxxn., xxxvi., xxxvii. 8 Nathorst (15 2 ). 

 9 Goeppert and Menge (83) A. PL xvi. 



10 Gardner (86) Pis. m., iv., xxiv. 



11 Heer (68) i. Pis. m., XLV.; (71) iii. Pis. i., in.; (77) i. Pis. XL, XIL, XXVL; (78) 

 Pis. ix., xm.; (83) Pis. LXX., LXXV. 



