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by a flat border and it may be that the latter is the impression 

 of a sarcotesta. Another possible interpre- 

 tation is that the oval bodies are seeds in 

 intimate association with fertile bracts. 

 The strobilus bears a close resemblance 

 to Stachyotaxus elegans Nath.i from the 

 Khaetic of Sweden compared by the author 

 of the species with an ovuliferous shoot 

 of Podocarjms spicata and Dacrydium 

 FranJdini and believed to be allied to the 

 recent genus Dacrydium, a view upheld 

 by Miss Gibbs^ in her account of recent 

 Podocarps. It is not improbable that 

 Strobilites Milleri is more closely alUed to 

 the Podocarpineae than to any other family 

 of Conifers. 



Saxegothopsis Dusen. 



In his account of a Tertiary flora, 



possibly Ohgocene, from localities on the 



Magellan straits Dusen^ describes a single 



leaf as Saxegothopsis fuegianus on the 



ground that it resembles the leaves of (Saxe- Tj," „„„ „, ,.,., ,..„ . 

 ° . . Fia. 797. Strobilites Milhn. 



gothaea cons'picvM. The lamina, rather less 

 than 2 cm. long, is linear-lanceolate with a 

 spinous apex and a short stalk; no veins 

 are shown in the drawing. There is no substantial reason for 

 regarding this solitary fossil as a fragment of a Conifer allied 

 to Saxegothaea. Dusen admits the lack of satisfactory evidence 

 indicating generic identity, but the specimen hardly merits the 

 distinction of being made the type of a new genus. 



(After 

 burgh 

 size.) 



Seward; Edin- 

 Museum ; nat. 



Phyllocladineae. 

 PHYLLOCLADITES. Heer. 



This generic name was given by Heer* to a fossil, subsequently 

 transferred to a new genus Drepanolepis^ (fig. 798, C), which affords 



2 Gibbs (12) p. 539. 



1 Nathorst (08^) PI. n. figs. 1—27. 

 » Dusen (99) p. 105, PI. xi. fig. 10. 

 " Heer (75) ii. p. 124, PI. xxxv. figs. 17—21. 



Nathorst (97) p. 43. 



