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of the large apertures induce me to place these specimens with 

 Cordaites stems. 



Cordaites Taxina, Lindley et Hutton (Woodcut No. 7). 

 Type — Knorria taxina, L. et H., Foss. Mora, pi. 95. 

 Fern Stem, Lebour, 111. Foss. Pits., pis. 48 and 49. 



248.— Knorria taxina, L. et H. Type specimen, F. F., pi. 95. 



(Woodcut No. 7). 



In the Fossil Flora II., p. 37, 

 this specimen is said to be 

 from the roof of the High- 

 Main seam, Jarrow Colliery. 

 This appears to be an error, 

 for Hutton's own label has 

 on it "Jarrow, Bm." No 

 doubt the reduced drawing 

 only of this specimen (for 

 the slab itself is large, heavy, 

 and fifteen inches long) was 

 sent to London to Lindley, 

 who describes from the re- 

 duced figure and at a very 

 great disadvantage, or he 

 would not have ejaculated, 

 " Surely this must be a por- 

 tion of the branch of the 

 Yew, or some such plant." 

 The drawing certainly more 

 closely resembles Lindley's 

 drawings of a Yew than it 

 does the original impression 

 on the slab. The stem is 

 about fifteen inches long, 

 and varies in breadth from 

 three-eighths of an inch at the basal end to seven-eighths in 

 its broadest part near the middle, and then gradually tapers 

 till it passes beyond the end of the slab. Neither end perfect. 

 The stem is compressed quite flat, the upper part nearly 

 straight, with a sharp curve to one side near the basal end. 

 The surface is very distinctly longitudinally striated with fine 



