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about the same size as those of tlie Cephalotaxns Fortiinei, 

 at present existing in China and Japan. It is interest- 

 ing, too, to find remains of the genus Feildeuia (F"io-s. 4 

 and 5), which has as yet been found only in tlie polar 

 regions. It was first discovered by Nordenskiold in the 

 Tertiary strata near Cape Staratschin, on Spitzbergen, in 



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1868, and was described by Heer under the name of 

 Torcllia. It was subsequently found by Feilden in the 

 Tertiary strata at Discovery Bay, in Grinnell Land, 

 during the English Polar Expedition of 1S75-76; and 

 Heer now changed the generic name to Fcildciiia, as 

 Torcllia had already been employed as the name of a 

 mussel. This species has since been found by me in 

 1882 in the Upper Jurassic strata of Spitzbergen. The 

 leaves remind one of the leaves of the subspecies iiagcia 

 of the existing genus Podocarpits. 



"The finest specimens of the whole collection are the 

 leaves of a small Gingko, of which one is complete (Fig. 

 6). This genus, with plum-like seeds and with leaves 



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