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appear on tho same individual would imagine that the Cypress-like 
trees with erect or se endulous thread-like branchlets and closely 
appressed acerose leaves belong to the same i as those with 
spreading distichous Seaniies “and flat leaves. The acerose form 
ong been an inhabitant of the pate of the eastern 
United States and Bur om and is generally cultivated as Glypto- 
strobus act and believed to be a native of China.” 
It is worth recording that the two genera ai onan and 
Tastee: are well  ameber in a fossil conditio ault 
, and 
here and from Sioux City, United States. Of Taxodium five species 
are also atl in similar miocene deposits. The characteristic 
marks of eeoesoe between the two genera are observable in the 
fossil speci 
It aA g seem, then, that the two genera Gleptagern and 
Taxodium are amply distinct. The chief distinction of Glypto 
strobus lies in the elongated cone-scale, which is not peltate; the 
bract < hac ae from the seed-scale at the base, but rather 
above middle it becomes free and recurved, leaving bare the 
5-7- Tohed summit of the seed-scale. On the inner side of the seed- 
scale are ri pockets or depressions in which lie the seeds. “These 
are smooth, oblong or obovate, often with a short spur or funicle 
at the base and wi ith a nego. wing on the side, prolonged beneath 
into a flat lancet-shaped w e seeds are described as erect, 
but they seem more likely By s pendulous. The point t cannot be 
conclusively settled till material, especially cones in their ear arly 
condition, is sae tecyr t. 
The cone-scales of Taxodium, as already stated, are peltate, and 
we Fait ois 4 zat irregularly three-sided, and scarcely, if at all, 
Ing: 
ADDITIONS TO THE FLORA OF WEST LANCASHIRE. 
By J. A. Wuenpon anp ALBERT Witson, 
She Raji’ of he Botanical 1 Reciid Club. No attempt is made to 
ence it must not be inferred that the localities given are the only 
ones = hte we have observed the Lea named. So far as we 
can resent ascertain, nearly all a w county records, there- 
fore me have not called attention to this fact i in individual cases by 
sign. It is quite possible that some of the species may 
hava} Seek recorded previously through publications with which we 
