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present day, and better still the Ceratozamia of Mexico, 
but it presented more modest proportions than the last. 
The fructiferous cones of these plants, which have just 
been discovered, it appears, by a savant of Stockholm, 
companion of M. Nordenskjéld, M. Nathorst, confirm this 
relationship ; they remind one, moreover, of the first of 
the two genera of the present, which have been men- 
tioned. In Europe the Pod»zamites are often frequent at 
the base of the lias in the rhetiea; but they reappear in 
the oolite, and even further up in the wealden. One of 
the most characteristic species of these in the deposit at 
Scarborough, the Podozamites lunceolatus, Lindl., consti- 
tuted also a part of the flora of Cape Boheman. 
‘Other forms of the Bathonian deposit of Scarborough 
show themselves almost as abundantly as the preceding, 
at Cape Bohemau; these are the Cyclopteris Huttont, 
Sternb., and C. digitata, Brongn., the place in the classified 
list and the peculiarities of which cannot be passed over 
in silence. Long considered as ferns analogous to the 
Schizoca, or by others as rhizocarps of a lost type, the 
Cyclopteris and the Baiera of Schimper, have been recog- 
nised quite lately, and with perfect justice, by M. Heer, as 
representing in reality the Salisburia (Ginko L.), being in 
reality, notwithstanding their antiquity, congeners of the 
unique species of the present day, Sulisburia adiantifulial 
Sm. (Ginco biloba L.)’ 
The Salisburia adiantifolia, or ‘maiden-haired Salis- 
burnia ’—so named after a distinguished modern botanist 
—is a native of Japan, but now common in Europe. Itis 
a tree of great beauty, attaining a height of about twenty 
feet. It is remarkable for its fan-shaped leaves, cloven 
like some of the species of adianthum, from which circum- 
stance it has received its specific designation. It belongs 
to the same order as the yew, which order is intermediate 
between that of the joint-firs, the gnetacez, and the pines. 
While resembling in some points the ferns, the fruit, like 
that of the yew, is juicy, and resembles a berry or rather 
a damson, which it also resembles in size, It is of a pale 
