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SEQXJOIINEAE 



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was applied to branches without any recognisable cones. In 1868 

 Heeri figured specimens from the Kome beds in Greenland which 

 he believed to be identical with Araucarites Reichenbachii Gein. 

 though the fohage-shoots bear shorter leaves than those on the 

 type-specimen of Geinitz : Heer states that he was able to examine 

 the type-specimen and assured himself of the specific identity of the 

 German and Greenland specimens ; he substituted the generic name 



Fio. 769. Geinitzia Beichenbachi 

 (After Geinitz.) 



Fig. 770. Geinitzia Seichenbachii. 

 (After Heer; nat. size.) 



Sequoia for Araucarites on the ground. that some cones in the 

 Tubingen Museum from Lower Cretaceous beds in Moravia, 

 attached to branches apparently identical with Araucarites Reichen- 

 bachii, presented a very close resemblance to those of recent 

 Sequoias. The Moravian specimens, which he afterwards figured^, 

 are oval and the cone-scales have distally expanded distal ends 

 (fig. 770) like those of Sequoia, but no evidence was obtained as to 

 the number of seeds. Additional examples of vegetative shoots 

 and cones were described by Heer^ from Greenland as Sequoia 



1 Heer (68) PL XLiii. 2 /jj^_ (ggj pj^ j 



' Ibid. (75) ii. Pis. xii., xx., xxxiv., etc. 



