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We have, however, the much more trustworthy evi- 

 dence of cones and seed-bearing scales in which the 

 characteristic features of living species are clearly 

 shown. Seed-bearing scales almost identical with those 

 of Arancaria excel sa and other recent species have 

 long been known from the Jurassic rocks of Yorkshire. 



From other parts of England where samples of 

 Jurassic floras are preserved, as at Stonesfield in 

 Oxfordshire, in Northamptonshire and elsewhere, 

 equally striking examples of undoubted Araucarias 

 have been found. 



Fig. 18 represents part of a large cone described 

 in 1866 by Mr Carruthers from Jurassic rocks at 

 Bruton in Somersetshire : this specimen, now in the 

 British INIuseum, consists of one side of a spherical 

 cone about 5 inches long and 5 inches broad ; in size, 

 as in the form of the seed-scales, it shows a striking 

 likeness to the cones of the Australian species 

 Araucaina BidwilliL the Bunya Bunya of Queens- 

 land. Other equally convincing examples of Jurassic 

 Araucarian cones and seeds may be seen in the 

 museums of York and Northampton. On the north- 

 east coast of Sutherland there is a narrow strip of 

 Jurassic beds forming a low platform between the 

 granitic and Old Red Sandstone hills and the sea. 

 From these rocks Hugh Miller described several 

 fossil plants in his Testimony of the Bocls, and an 

 examination of a large collection obtained from this 



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