544 Carruthers — On Fossil Coniferous Fruits. 



I have described as Araucaria Pippingfordiensis, GtEOL. Mag. Vol. III. 

 p. 250, and I must request the reader to add Mantell's name, as a 

 synonym, to that species ; Unger's specific name, which I adopted, is 

 older. 



The original specimen, which, through the kindness of the Council 

 of the Geological Society, I have had the use of for description, is a 

 beautiful cast in carbonate of lime of the cavity which contained the 

 cone. It is a somewhat ovate cone, an inch and a half long by a 

 little over an inch broad. The ajDophyses of the scales in the middle 

 of the cone are about twice as long as deep. They are pyramidal, 

 having a sharp keel which runs across the whole of the scale. The 

 umbo has terminated the apes of the paraphysis, but only the cicatrix 

 is seen, and from the direction it takes the umbo seems to have had 

 a somewhat downward direction, as in Pinus rigida. The fossil in 

 other respects very much resembles this species, except in its smaller 

 size. 



The cone is labelled from Purbeck, without locality or name of 

 collector. 



10. PiNiTES ELONGATUS, Endl. Synops. Conif. p. 286. 



Cone elongated, cylindrical ; scales very broad and tliin. 

 Sfrohilites elongatus, Lindl. and Hutt, Fossil Flora, Vol, ii. p. 23 PL 29. 



I know this fossil only from Lindley and Hutton's drawing and 

 description. It appears to be a true cone, but so fragmentary that 

 until additional specimens are obtained nothing satisfactory can be 

 made of it. The specimen figured, which is the only one that has 

 been found, has been an open cone, like the majority of those of 

 P. Dunlceri, and in breaking the rounded nodule in which it occurred 

 all the external characters have been lost. 



11. Sequoiites Woodwaedii, Plate XXI. Figs. 11-16. 



Cone sub-globose ; leaves of two kinds, the one sub-opposite, very short, acute, with a 

 long decurrent base ; the other squamose, linear, acuminate, sub-falcate, with a 

 broad nerve below. 



This is a very interesting plant, and undoubtedly a fossil species 

 of the genus Sequoia. I have, however, employed the name Sequoiites in 

 accordance with the almost uniform practice of botanists, — a practice 

 of great value in enabling one at once to distinguish the recent from 

 the fossil species of a genus. The genus Sequoia is at present re- 

 presented by two Californian species, the monster trees of that 

 country, known in our lawns and parks as Wellingtonias. Pive other 

 species have been reported from Tertiary strata, the oldest being, as 

 I believe, S. Coutsice from Bovey Tracey. Debey cannot separate 

 Geinitzia from Sequoia, and Heer, accepting this determination, sup- 

 poses that Sequoia probably begins in the Cretaceous formation. We 

 have here a genuine Cretaceous species from the Upper Greensand. 



The materials in the British Museum consist of three specimens of 

 leaves (Plate XXI. Figs. 15 and 16), an imperfect cone (Fig. 11), 

 and the termination of a branch containing the female bud with the 

 ovules, without the scales (Fig. 13 magnified two times). 



