W. Carrutkers — British Fossil Coni/erce. 7 



Setting aside the unsatisfactory evidence of foliage and wood, we 

 know, from the remains of fruits of the existence of five species of 

 Araucaria in the Secondary rocks of Britain. One Cretaceous Arau- 

 carites Pipping f or densis, Carr., from the Wealden, and the others 

 Oolitic, one undescribed and apparently lost, but determined by 

 Eobert Brown, from the Purbeck, one A. Brodiei, Carr., from the 

 Stonesfield slate ; and two A. sphcerocarpus, Carr., and A. Phillipsii, 

 Carr., from the Inferior Oolite. 



Sequoiites Gakdnebi, sp. nov., Plate I, Pigs. 7, 8. 



Cone oval, scales peltate, the rhomboidal apex, smooth, depressed 

 in the centre, broader than deep; leaves falcate, incurved, sub- 

 quandrangular in section, arranged spirally on the branch. 



Locality. — The G-ault of Eastware Bay, near Folkestone. 



For this second British Cretaceous species of Sequoiites I am in- 

 debted to J. S. Gardner, Esq., whose researches in the Gault of 

 Folkestone I desire to acknowledge by associating his name with 

 the species. 



Appendix. — The remarkable branches from the Oxford Clay which 

 are represented by Figures 11-13 of Plate II. are placed there with 

 the view of eliciting information regarding them, rather than for the 

 purpose of adding names and descriptions, which mean nothing, to 

 the already long list of uncertain objects that occur in every enume- 

 ration of fossil plants. Both forms — that of Figure 11, but especially 

 that represented by Figures 12 and 13 — are very remarkable, and 

 easily recognisable. It would specially help to a satisfactory deter- 

 mination of the true nature if either foliage or fruit could be found 

 associated with them. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATES I. and IL— Plate I. 

 Fig. 1. Finites Leckenbyi, Carr. 



2. Section of the same through the axis ; the scales and the seeds. The section 



is not continued to the base of the cone, the lower and lighter coloured 

 portion being fractured. 



3. A scale with two seeds at the base. 



4. A portion of the base of the cone seen from below, and exhibiting the remains 



of the supporting branch. 



5. Section of one of the seeds considerably magnified, showing the embryo, in 



the middle of the albumen, with the division of the Cotyledons. 



6. Section of a seed of Finus Cedrits, Linn., for comparison with Fig. 5. From 



Richard. > 



7. Cone of Sequoiites Oardneri, Carr. 



8. Fragment of a branch of the same. 



9. Cone of Finites gracilis, Carr. 



Plate II. 

 Fig. 1. Cast of the fragment of a cone of Araucarites Brodiei, Carr., with a portion 

 of the supporting branch. 

 2, 3, and 4. Scales of the same ; the latter two exhibiting the double nature of 

 the apex. 



5. The cast of a fragment of a branch, and 



6. A leaf, probably, belonging to the same species. 



7. EoUed fragment of Araucarites Fhillipsii, Carr., showing the single seed in 



each scale. 

 8 and 9. Scales of the same species. 



10. Cone of Finites depresstcs, Carr. 



11. Branch from the Oxford Clay of Chippenham, Cambridgeshire. 



12 and 13. Branches fi-oni the Oxford Clay of Christian Malford, "Wiltshire. 

 12 from the collection of "Wm. Cunnington, Esq., F.G.S. ; 13 from the 

 British Museum. 



