PODOZAMITES. 121 



A Genus of Gymnosperms of Doubtful Affinity. 

 Genus PODOZAMITES, Braun. 



[Munster, Beit. Petrefact. Heft vi. p. 36, 1843.] 



I have elsewhere suggested that Poio%amiUs may be a genus of 

 ."Conifers similar in habit to the recent AgatMs australis, Salisb.' 

 The Stonesfield specimens are detached leaves, or leaflets, and 

 afford no additional evidence as to afB.nity ; in shape and form 

 they present a striking resemblance to the broader leaves of 

 Agathis. 



Fodozaxaites stouesfieldensis, sp. nov. 

 (PL XI. Figs. 1-2 ; PL III. Fig. 4.) 



1845. Naiadea ovata, Buckman, Geol. Cheltenham, p. 67, pi. ii. fig. 1. 



Benaonia. ovata, ibid. p. 67. 



Zilia lanceolata, ibid. pi. ii. fig. 3. 

 1854. L. lanceolata, Monis, Brit. Foss. p. 11. 



Naiadea ovata, ibid. p. 12. 



? Bensonia ovata, ibid. p. 3. 

 1871. Naiadea ovata, Phillips, Geol. Oxford, p. 169. 



Bensonia ovata, ibid. p. 168. 



Zilia lanceolata, ibid. p. 168. 

 1886. L. lanceolata, Gardner, Geol. Mag. vol. iii. p. 203. 



Bensmtia ovata, ibid. 

 1894. Zilia lanceolata. Woodward, Lower Ool. p. 598. 



Bensonia ovata, ibid. 



I have ventured to designate the Stonesfield specimens represented 

 in PL XI. Pigs. 1, 2, and PL III. Pig. 4, by a new specific name, 

 .as there is some doubt as to the nature of the fossils figured by 

 Buckman. It is practically certain that the specimen which he 

 figures as Naiadea ovata is identical with this species, but the 

 specific name ovatus has already been used in connection with the 

 genus Podozamites. Possibly specimen No. V. 3468 (PL XI. Fig. 2) 

 is the type of Buckman's Naiadea ovata, but the drawing is not 

 sufflciently clear to render this certain. 



• Seward (00), p. 241. 



