124 CAEPOLIIHES. 



I have discussed at some length the application of this term to 

 fossil seeds. It has been shown by Carruthers that some of the 

 Great Oolite fossils referred to Cmrpolithes are more likely to be 

 reptilian eggs.' 



Genus CARPOLITHES, Sternberg. 

 [Flor. Vorwelt, iv. p. xl. 1823.] 



Carpolithes conicus, Lindley & Hutton. 



[Foss. Flor. pi. cbcxxix. figs. 1, 2, 4, 1836.] 



(PI. XIII. Fig. 5 ; Text-figs. 13-.15.) 



1836. Carpolithes conica, Lindley & Hutton, Foss. Flor. pi. clxxxix. 

 figs. 1, 2, 4. 



0. BucUaiidi, op. cit. pi. clxxxix. figs. 3, 5. 

 1845. C. eonieus, Buctman, Geol. Cheltenham, p. 67, pi. ii. figs. 5-9. 



P. Bucklandi, Unger, Synopsis, p. 188. 



G. conica, ibid. 



1848. C. Bmlclandi, Bronn, Ind. Pal. p. 239. 

 C. conicus, ibid. 



1849. C. Bucklandi, Brongniart, Tableau, p. 108. 

 C. conica, ibid. 



Ulospermum ornatmn, Pomel, Flor. foss. France, p. 16. 



V. eonicum, ibid. 

 (1850. Carpolithes Bucklandi, Unger, Gen. spec, plant, foss. p. 309. 



C. conica, ibid. 

 1854. C. conicus, Morris, Brit. Foss. p. 4. 

 1870. Cycadinocarpus conicus, Schimper, Trait, pal. veg. vol. ii. p. 210. 



C. Bucklandi, ibid. 

 1878. Carpolithus conicus, Hudleston, Proc. Geol. Assoc, vol. v. p. 494. 

 1885. Cycadeospermum Bucklandi, Zigno, Flor. foss. Oolit. p. 160. 



C. eonicum, ibid. 

 1892. Carpolithes Bucklandi, Fox-Strangways, Jurass. Eocks, p. 302. 



C. conicus, ibid. 

 1894. Cycadinocarpus conicus. Woodward, Lower Ool. p. 599. 



The original specimen figured by Lindley & Hutton in their 

 pi. clxxxix. fig. 4 as CarpolitJies conica is in the Manchester 

 Museum, and is redrawn in Text-fig. 13. Another seed in the same 

 .collection (361, Text-fig. ISa) may be the original of Carpolithes 

 Bucklandi as represented in the Fossil Flora, pi. clxxxix. fig. 5. 



Cairuthers (71'). 



