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ENTOMOLEPIS 



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Pityosporites sp. 



In his account of petrified plant-remains from Franz Josef 

 Land, probably of Wealden or approximately Wealden age, Graf 

 Solms-Laubach^ mentions the occurrence of well preserved pollen 

 with bladders and figures a piece of a cone with flat scales similar 



Fig. 790. A, B, Pityosporites sp. from Franz Josef Land. C, Pityosporites sp. 

 from Scania. (A, B, from specimens in the Museum of the Geological Survey ; 

 C, after Nathorst.) 



to that of a Picea. The drawings reproduced in fig. 790, A, B 

 were made from specimens foi^nd in sections of the material 

 examined by Solms-Laubach in the Geological Survey collection. 

 The longest diameter is 70 — QOjjl; in form and size the microspores 

 resemble those of recent Pines. The apparently broad wall shown 

 in fig. 790, A is the result of the obliquity of the section. 



ENTOMOLEPIS. Saporta. 



Entomolepis cynarocephala Saporta. Saporta^ instituted this 

 generic name for some cones from the Oligocene plant-beds of 

 Provence 8 — 10 cm. long, ovate-elliptical, and composed of spirally 

 arranged coriaceous scales not thickened at the apex but prolonged 

 •beyond the imbricate broad portion into a long recurved, acuminate 

 and fimbriate, spinous process. No seeds have been found and 

 there is no evidence as to internal structure. Saporta considers 

 the cones to belong to some extinct type and, as Zeiller^ says, they 

 are probably Abietineous. 



^ Solms-Laubaoh (04) p. 11. 

 ^ IvTofios, cut up; \eirls, scale. 

 ' ZeiUer (00) B. p. 278. 



Saporta (65^) p. 55, PI. n. fig. 3. 



