Carrutkers — Secondary Cycadean Fruits. 105 



There are two specimens of this cone in the British Museum, 

 from the collection of Lady Hastings. They are two and a-half 

 inches long, by one and a-half broad. The base is not only 

 truncate, but somewhat indented, and there is the remains of a 

 large peduncle, having a diameter of nearly half-an-inch. There is 

 a third specimen in the Geological Museum at Jermyn Street. 



From the Wealden, Brook Point. 



5. G. Walkeri. Cone oblong ; scales broader than deep. 



This cone is figured by Mr. J. F. Walker, in the Annals and Mag. 

 of Nat. Hist. ser. 3, vol. 18 (plate xiii. fig. 5), and described as a 

 Cycadean cone (p. 384), two and a-half inches long and two and 

 three-quarters in circumference. The specimen is evidently very 

 much waterworn. Perhaps the specimen in the British Museum 

 from which the four scales (Plate VI. Fig. 7) were drawn, belongs 

 to this species. 



From a phosphatic deposit in the Lower Greensand, at Sandy, 

 Bedfordshire, probably of Wealden age. 



6. C. splicsricus. Cone spherical ; scales as deep as they are 

 broad. (Plate VI. Fig. 8). 



This cone is very much compressed and imperfectly preserved, 

 but is evidently different from the others. 

 From the Oxford clay of Wiltshire. 



7. C. primcBvus. Cone ovate ; scales as broad as they are deep. — 

 Firms primceva, Lindl. and Hutt. Foss. Fl. Tabl. 135. Pinites pri- 

 mcBvus, Morris, Cat. p. 18. 



The scales of this cone are six deep and six round. Each one is 

 dilated at its extremity, and gradually thins away towards the axis. 

 From the Inferior Oolite at Burcott Wood and Livingstone. 



8. G. Brunonis. Scales twice as broad as they are deep. (Plate 

 VI. Fig. 4 and 5.) 



The single specimen of this species is a fragment from the base of 

 a large cone. It is from the collection of the late Eobert Brown. 

 The fragment is two inches in diameter. The very broad scales 

 ^easily separate it from the other species. 



Locality unknown. 



9. (?) Zamia crassa, Lindl. and Hutt. Foss. Flor. t. 136. This is 

 probably a Cycadean cone. The authors of the " Fossil Flora" de- 

 cribe it as having " in transverse section numerous seeds lying 

 below the thickened ends of the scales at a considerable distance 

 from the thick axis." It is too imperfect to decide positively as 

 to its affinities. 



From the Wealden, at Yarenland, Isle of Wight. 



There is a cast in white sandstone of a vegetable organism, 

 probably Cycadean, but whether part of a trunk or of a fruit I am 

 unable to determine, from Brora, presented to the Geological Museum, 

 Jermyn Street, by Sir Eod. I. Murchison, Bart. I notice this here 

 that I may suggest, to those who have an opportunity of visiting 

 the Secondary deposits of the North of Scotland, how desirable it 

 is to have additional specimens, so as to determine more accurately 

 the remarkably interesting Flora of these beds. 



