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the present strobilus belongs to that species. This connec- 

 tion, however, cannot be proved. 



Masculostrobus sp. 2. 



PI. 6, figs, 11 — 13. 



As Masculostrobus sp. 2 may be designated a kind of small 

 male strobili, of which the best specimen is shown in pi. 6, 

 figs. 11—13. 



All the specimens of this form are small and fragmentary, 

 the largest reaching a length of rather less than 20 mm. The 

 description will be based on the somewhat smaller but better 

 preserved specimen in fig. 11. The sporophylls form a rather 

 wide but not a right angle to the axis. They have a length 

 of about 2 mm. and are somewhat bent upwards. In their 

 lower parts they are very slender and stalk-like; at the apex 

 they widen rapidly, thus assuming a cuneate shape. It is 

 not possible to decide whether they were peltate, with the 

 stalk attached to the centre of a transverse apical lamina, 

 but it would rather appear as if the stalk gradually passed 

 over into the lower end of the latter. The diameter of 

 this lamina is 0,5 — 0,8 mm. The sporophylls occasionally 

 bear what appears to be traces of pollen-sacs. One such in- 

 stance is shown in fig. 12, in which a pollen-sac is seen 

 closely applied to the stalk of the sporophyll; another is re- 

 presented in fig. 13. No further details of the structure can 

 be made out, and the fragments are of too poor a quality to 

 permit of a comparison with any other either recent or fossil 

 forms. 



Masculostrobus sp. 3. 



PI. G, figs. 14—18. 



The commonest as well as the best preserved of the 

 male strobili at Kurremölla is the one here described as 

 Masculostrohus sjj. 3, and figured in pi. 6, figs. 14 — 18. 



The largest specimens, which, however, only represent 

 portions of strobili, measure rather less than 25 mm. in length. 

 The shape was probably cylindrical. The sporophylls are 

 perpendicular to the axis or nearly so: they are about 4 — 5 



