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present day, and better still the Ceratozamia of Mexico, 

 but it presented more modest proportions than the last. 

 The fructiferous cones of these plants, which have just 

 been discovered, it appears, by a savant of Stockholm, 

 companion of M.. Nordeuskjold, M. Nathorst, confirm this 

 relationship ; they remind one, moreover, of the first of 

 the two genera of the present, which have been men- 

 tioned. In Europe the l j od Canutes are often frequent at 

 the base of the lias in the rhetien ; but they reappear in 

 the oolite, and even further up in the wealden. One of 

 the most characteristic species of these in the deposit at 

 Scarborough, the Podozamites lanceolatus, Lindl., consti- 

 tuted also a part of the flora of Cape Bohenian. 



' Other forms of the Bathouiau deposit of Scarborough 

 show themselves almost as abundantly as the preceding, 

 at Cape Boheinan ; these are the Gyclopteris Huttoni, 

 Sternb., and C. digitafa, Brongn., the place in the classified 

 list and the peculiarities of which cannot be passed over 

 in silence. Long considered as ferns analogous to the 

 Schizoca, or by others as rhizocarps of a lost type, the 

 Cyclopteris and the Baiera of Schimper, have been recog- 

 nised quite lately, and with perfect justice, by M. Heer, as 

 representing in reality the Salisburia (Ginko L.), being in 

 reality, notwithstanding their antiquity, congeners of the 

 unique species of the present day, Sulisburia adiantifuliat 

 Sm. (Ginco biloba L.)' 



The tialisburia adiantifolia, or ' maiden-haired Salis- 

 burnia ' so named after a distinguished modern botanist 

 is a native of Japan, but now common in Europe. It is 

 a tree of great beauty, attaining a height of about twenty 

 feet. It is remarkable for its fan-shaped leaves, cloven 

 like some of the species of adianthum, from which circum* 

 stance it has received its specific designation. It belongs 

 to the same order as the yew, which oider is intermediate 

 between that of the joint-firs, the gnetaceae, and the pines. 

 While resembling in some points the ferns, the fruit, like 

 that of the yew, is juicy, and resembles a berry or rather 

 a damson, which it also resembles in size. It is of a pale 



