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I propose for this species the name 



Pinus Lindgrenii 



Cone apparently ovoid or nearly globular in shape ; fertile 

 scales very thick, 2 cm. or more broad at apex; nut oblong or 

 obovoid, full and rounded at both ends, about 1.5 cm. long, and 

 1 cm. or a little less in diameter. 



This cone, which is fairly well shown in figures 1, 2 and 3, 

 was, as nearly as can be made out, about 5.5 cm. in length and 

 4 cm. in diameter. It is irregularly broken through the fertile 

 portion, thus well exposing the large seed-cavities at the base of 



Fig. 3. Basal view, showing the large seed-cavities. 



the scales. The remaining scales diminish rapidly in size, 

 those at the apex being only 4 or 5 mm. in long diameter. In 

 several of the seed-cavities fragments of the very thin and evi- 

 dently brittle shell of the seed can still be observed, and in one 

 cavity a brownish, carbonaceous mass appears to represent the 

 seed itself. 



So far as I am now aware, this is the first undoubted nut pine to 

 be described in a fossil state from this country. In the compact, 

 almost globular, shape of the cone, this pine seems most closely 

 to resemble Pinus edulis, but the size and shape of the scales, 

 and the larger seeds seem to bring it closer to P. monopJiylla. 

 Although having a cone that was apparently little if any larger 

 than the ordinary cones of P. edulis, the seeds are noticeably 

 larger than those of either this species or P. monopliylla. The 

 present range of P. edulis covers the general locality where P. 



