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tte coast of Kent, near Feversham. These authors refer it to the 

 Greensand because of its affinity to their Z. macrocephala, for the 

 same reason I consider it more likely to be of Tertiary age, and the 

 locality where it was found would favour this opinion rather than 

 the other. 



3. PiNiTES OBLONGTJS, Endl., Synops. Conif. p. 284 



Cone cylindrical ; scales broad and thin at the apex, with the seeds very near the base ; 



axis slender. 



Abies ohlonga, Lindl. and Hutt., Fossil Flora, Vol. ii., p. 155, PI. 137. — Abietites 

 oblongus, Gopp., Fossil. Conif. p. 207- 



This species is founded on a single cone rather more than 2^ inches 

 long, found on the Dresent shore. It had been rolled to a pebble, 

 and reduced at both extremities so as to -lay bare the seeds. 



I know this species only from Liadley and Hutton's drawing and 

 description. 



Being found on the shore it was believed by Buckland to have 

 been washed out of the Greensand Cliff near Lyme Eegis. 



4. PiNiTES Benstedi, Endl., Synops. Conif. p. 283. 



Cone oval ; scales broad and thin at the apex, leaving the thick axis at a right angle 

 then ascending beyond the seed. 



Abies Benstedi, Mant., Quart. Jour. Geol. Soc, Vol. ii. p. 52, PI. ii. fig. 2.~Abietites 

 Benstedi, Gopp., Fossil. Conif. p. 217. 



The single cone described by Mantell, and on which the species is 

 founded, is now in the British Museum. It is an inch and five- 

 eighths long and one and a quarter broad. It is nearly perfect. The 

 section is accurately figured by Mantell ; but the artist, in restoring 

 the external aspect, has made the exposed apices of the scales nearly 

 equal -sided ; whereas, in the specimen, they are at least four times 

 broader than they are deep. The axis occupies somewhat more than 

 a third of the diameter of the cone. The position and shape of 

 the seeds, the form of the scales, the shape of the exposed apices, and 

 the general aspect of the cone, are very like those of a cedar. It may 

 be compared with Finns (Cedi-us) Atlantica, Endl. 



5. PiNITES SUSSEXIENSIS. 

 Cone oblong, truncate at both ends ; axis slender ; scales leaving the axis at a very 



acute angle, bearing two ovate seeds in a hollow, very near the base ; scale in 



transverse section triangular. 

 Zamia Siissexiensis, Mantell, Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, Vol ii, p. 51, PI. IT. fig. 1. — 



Zamites Sussexi'-nsis, Morris, British Fossils, 1st Ed., p. 25. — Zamiostrobus 



Sussexiensis, Gopp. Uebers. d. Schles. Gesellsch. 1844, p. 129. 



The specimen in the British Museum formed part of the extensive 

 collection of the late Eobert Brown. He had a transverse section 

 taken from near the apex, (Plate XX, Fig. 6.) which clearly 

 establishes it to be a cone. When examining it, I found that it had 

 been cracked, and inserting my knife into the crack, I separated the 

 pieces, when it exhibited, as has been accurately drawn by Mr. 

 Fielding (Plate XX. Fig. 5,) the internal structure of an Abietineous 

 cone. 



The specimen, which is the one described and figured by Mantell, 



