europaea ; but it is so close to the living larch of Europe that we have placed it doubt* 

 fully under this species. 



Length about 12 mm., breadth 7.5 mm. Reuver. 



The larch now lives throughout Europe and boreal Asia. 



PINUS Sp. 

 PI. I, figs. 10 a, b. 



A small scale belonging to the cone of a species oiPinus cannot be further identi* 

 fied. Scale thick obovate with short limb, head rounded tetragonal, umbo not prominent. 

 Ventral surface showing two hollows with impressions of the wings of seeds. 



Length 5 mm., breadth 3.5 mm. Reuver. 



This may belong to some form of P. laricio, but we can find nothing exactly 

 like it. 



Small seeds, perhaps belonging to the same species, have been found at Reuver 

 and Swalmen, and are shown on PL I, figs. 11, 12. 



SEQUOIA? 

 PI. I, figs. 13 a, b. 



Cone minute; scales 11 or 12, including apical and 2 small basal, about 6 times 

 as broad as long, each occupying about half the circumference of the cone; umbo de* 

 pressed slightly rugose; pedicel thick, showing 5 fibro*vascular bundles 4 of which are 

 broken off short but one is preserved. 



Length (cone) about 2 mm., breadth about 1.9 mm. Reuver. 



This minute cone seems to belong to Sequoia, though we cannot examine its 

 anatomy. Its small size and the great comparative thickness of the twig suggest that 

 the cone is very young, though its scales appear to be hard and woody. If this unique 

 specimen belongs to a Sequoia, it represents some undescribed species, and it apparently 

 marks the last appearance of the genus in Europe. 



CONIFERAE. 



In addition to the above described Coniferae we find the doubtful scale shown 

 on PI. I, figs. 14 a, b, and the characteristic seed illustrated on PI. I, fig. 15. We cannot 

 suggest the generic position of either of these. 



GNETACEAE. 



GNETUM SCANDENS Roxb. 



PI. XX, fig. 27. 



Portion of the male inflorescence of a Gnetum, showing 8 nodes, is so close to 

 that of the living G. scandens that we cannot separate it, so long as all the forms of 



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