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SEQUOIINEAE 



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was applied to branches without any recognisable cones. In 1868 

 Heer 1 figured specimens from the Kome beds in Greenland which 

 he believed to be identical with Araucarites Reichenbachii Gein. 

 though the foliage-shoots bear shorter leaves than those on the 

 type-specimen of Geinitz : Heer states that he was able to examine 

 the type-specimen and assured himself of the specific identity of the 

 German and Greenland specimens; he substituted the generic name 



FIG. 769. Geinitzia Reichenbachii. 

 (After Geinitz.) 



FIG. 770. Geinitzia Reichenbachii. 

 (After Heer; nat. size.) 



Sequoia for Araucarites on the ground that some cones in the 

 Tubingen Museum from Lower Cretaceous beds in Moravia, 

 attached to branches apparently identical with Araucarites Reichen- 

 bachii, presented a very close resemblance to those of recent 

 Sequoias. The Moravian specimens, which he afterwards figured 2 , 

 are oval and the cone-scales have distally expanded distal ends 

 (fig. 770) like those of Sequoia, but no evidence was obtained as to 

 the number of seeds. Additional examples of vegetative shoots- 

 and cones were described by Heer 3 from Greenland as Sequoia 



1 Heer (68) PI. XLITI. 2 Ibid. (69) PL i. 



3 Ibid. (75) ii. Pis. xn., xx., xxxiv., etc. 



