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angle somewhat rounded. There is no indication of bracts. The 

 fossil has the aspect of a very elongated and cylindrical cone of 

 Pinus Abies, L. to which it is evidently nearly allied. 



There are four specimens of this species in the British Museum 

 from the Wealden of Tilgate Forest, and two from Brook Point, 

 Isle of Wight. 



A third specimen from Brook Point appears to belong to an allied 

 species, in which the cone is more slender ; but it is too imperfect to 

 determine satisfactorily. 



7. PiNiTES Mantellii, Tab. XXI, Fig. 3. 



Cone ovate-acuminate ; scales broad, flat, and thin at the apex ; axis slender ; seeds 



roundish. 



This cone is about an inch and three-(][uarters long, by fully three- 

 quarters broad. The specimen is fragmentary, but the form of the 

 cone is preserved in the matrix. The apex of the scale is very 

 broad and thin. 



This cone was found in the Iguanodon quarry at Maidstone, Kent, 

 and formed part of the Mantell collection, now in the British Museum. 



8. PiNiTES PATENS, Tab. XXI, Fig. 4. 



Cone OTate-acuminate ; scales leaving the slender axis at a right angle, and supporting 



large seeds. 



The single specimen of this cone which shows only a longitudinal 

 section through the axis, is sufficiently different from the last species 

 to warrant its being separated as distinct. The seeds are large, and 

 in section of an oblong form. 



This species is also from the Iguanodon quarry, and, like the last 

 specimen described, is in the British Museum. 



9. PiNITES FiTTONI. 



Cone ovoid, truncate at the hase, tapering upwards ; apophysis of the scale pyramidal 

 with a ridge across it ; umbo terminating the apex of the pyramid. 



"A cone," Fitton, Geol. Trans., 2nd Ser. Vol. iv. p. 230, PL xxii, fig. 9. 



Damniarites Fittoni, Ung., Gen. et Sp. Plant. Foss., p. 384. 



This cone is said by Fitton to have "some slight resemblance to 

 the cone of a Dammara of the Moluccas."- He must have made a 

 slip of the pen in this statement, or transferred a note in regard to 

 one fossil by a mistake to this, for his very characteristic drawing, 

 on the face of it, contradicts his supposed resemblance. The cone 

 has much more affinity to the cone of the common Scotch fir, the 

 only indigenous British pine, as I shall presently show ; but on the 

 faith of this supposed " slight resemblance," linger, in giving the 

 fossil a name, places it in the genus Dammarites I Mantell (Greol. 

 Isle of Wight, 3rd ed. p. 330, foot-note), seems to have made some 

 mistake as to his Pinites Fittoni. He quotes pi. xxii. fig. 10 (1. c.) 

 for it, and says it does not agree with Dammara because of the double 

 ridge on the scale. But Fitton, as we have said, compares the cone 

 of fig. 9 (1. c.) with Dammara. It is, however, evident from 

 Mantell's remarks that he means the cone which he quotes, and which 



