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CYCADOPHYTAN FRONDS 



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certainly a Conifer as Nathorst has also suggested. No satis- 

 factory example of Cycadites has been described from Palaeozoic 

 strata ; Goeppert's Cycadites gyrosus^ is foimded on material too 

 imperfect to determine, and an examination of his Culm species 

 C. taxodinus in the Breslau Museimi led me to refer it to a Conifer. 

 The specimens figured^ by Zeiller from Lower Gondwana rocks 



Fig. 617. Pseudocycas insignis 



From the Lias of Hbr. A, f nat. size ; B, ca. x 2. 

 (After Nathorst.) 



in India as Cycadites 'i sp. are portions of linear leaves or leaflets 

 5 mm. broad with a median rib but they can hardly be accepted as 

 evidence of the presence of a Cycadean plant. 



Pseudocycas insignis Nathorst. 



The fronds of this Cenomanian species from the West of Green- 

 land reach a breadth of 16 cm. ; the rachis, 1 cm. broad, has two 



1 Goeppert (66). 



2 Zeiller (02) B. PI. vii. fig. 4. 



