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acuminate, and the lower part rather abruptly contracted and 

 attached by a broad crescentic base; veins numerous, parallel, 

 and occasionally forked. Fliche records the occurrence of a 

 small ATtisia-]ike pith-cast and pieces of stem with leaf-scars 

 ^4x3 mm.) in association with leaves of Pelourdea vogesiaca in 



Fig. 484. Pelourdea vogesiaca. Reconstruction of a foliage-shoot. 

 (After Wills.) 



Triassic strata in Lorraine. An imperfectly preserved specimen 

 described by Fliche as Cordaianthus Minieri^ resembles an 

 inflorescence of Cordaites. It consists of an axis 15 cm. long, 

 the lower part forming a peduncle, and on the upper portion are 

 linear bracts subtending oblong bodies which may be lateral 

 fertile shoots. 



1 Fliche (10) p. 264, PI. xxvii. fig. 2. 



