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ABIETINEAE 



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Pityocladus longifolius (Nathorst). [And Pityofhyllum longifolium 

 Nathorst.] 

 This species was first described by Nathorst^ from Ehaetic beds 

 in Scania as Taxites longifolius and afterwards as ? Cycadites. 



Fio. 776. Pili/ophi/l- 

 Itnit longifoltitin. 

 (Xat. size.) 



Fig. 775. Pityocladus longifolius. Leaves attached 

 to a short shoot covered with scales. (Nat. size: 

 a piece of lamina enlarged to show the fine trans- 

 verse striations. From a specimen from Scania 

 in the Stockholm Museum.) 



Moller^ adopted Nathorst' s generic name Pityofhyllum for de- 

 tached leaves and that designation should be used for specimens 

 1 Nathorst (78^) B. p. 50. 2 MoUer (03) p. 40, PI. vi. 



