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by a flat border and it may be that the latter is the impression 



of a sarcotesta. Another possible interpre- ^^^^^^^ 



tation is that the oval bodies are seeds in 



intimate association with fertile bracts. 



The strobilus .bears a close resemblance 



to Stachyotaxus elegans Nath. 1 from the 



Rhaetic of Sweden compared by the author 



of the species with an ovuliferous shoot 



of Podocarpus spicata and Dacrydium 



FranJclini and believed to be allied to the 



recent genus Dacrydium, a view upheld 



by Miss Gibbs 2 in her account of recent 



Podocarps. It is not improbable that 



Strobilites Milleri is more closely allied to 



the Podocarpineae than to any other family 



of Conifers. 



Saxegothopsis Dusen. 



In his account of a Tertiary flora, 

 possibly Oligocene, from localities on the 

 Magellan straits Dusen 3 describes a single 

 leaf as Saxegothopsis fuegianus on the 

 ground that it resembles the leaves of Saxe- 

 gothaea conspicua. The lamina, rather less 

 than 2 cm. long, is linear-lanceolate with a 

 spinous apex and a short stalk; no veins 

 are shown in the drawing. There is no substantial reason for 

 regarding this solitary fossil as a fragment of a Conifer allied 

 to Saxegothaea. Dusen admits the lack of satisfactory evidence 

 indicating generic identity, but the specimen hardly merits the 

 distinction of being made the type of a new genus. 



. Strobilites Milleri. 

 (After Seward; Edin- 

 burgh Museum ; nat. 

 size.) 



PHYLLOCLADINEAE. 

 PHYLLOCLADITES. Heer. 



This generic name was given by Heer 4 to a fossil, subsequently 

 transferred to a new genus Drepanolepis 5 (fig. 798, C), which affords 



2 Gibbs (12) p. 539. 



1 Nathorst (08 2 ) PI. n. figs. 127. 



3 Dusen (99) p. 105, PI. xi. fig. 10. 



4 Heer (75) ii. p. 124, PI. xxxv. figs. 1721. 



5 Nathorst (97) p. 43. 



