130 AKATJCAEITES. 



Other specimens : — V. 82 (several seeds, Egerton Coll.) ; V. 2513 

 (several seeds in addition to those figured, Baher Coll.); V. 4649 

 {R. Brown Coll.); V. 4663; V. 4671 (Sevenhampton) ; V. 6347 

 (Stonesfield) ; V. 6582 ; V. 6590 ; 40,514 {Bowerlanh Coll.) ; 

 40,581 (probably C. diospyriformis, from the Kellaways Eock, 

 Scarborough, Bean Coll.); 41,168 (Stonesfield); 52,866 (several 

 specimens, S. Sharp Coll.) ; 52,938a (Stonesfield, presented by the 

 Hon. Bohert Marsham, 1878). 



Carpolithes, sp. 



Under this designation are included several fossil seeds from 

 Stonesfield and elsewhere that do not sufficiently resemble either 

 of the preceding types to be definitely referred to C. conieus or to 

 C. diospyriformis. The practice of appending specific names to 

 casts of Gymnospermous seeds which do not exhibit any well- 

 marked distinctive features seems to me to serve no useful purpose. 



V. 224 (Malton, Coralline Oolite, Morris Coll.); 40,514 

 (^Bowerlanh Coll.) ; 40,581 (Kellaways Eock, Scarborough, Bean 

 Coll.) ; 52,549 (Malton, Wetherell Coll.) ; 52,895 {Toulmin Smith 

 Coll.) ; 52,938 {presented by the Hon. Robert Marsham, 1878). 



Class CONIFERALES. 



Family ARAUCAEIEiE. 



Genus ARAUCARITES, Presl. 



[Sternberg's Flor. Vorwelt, vii. p. 203, 1838.] 



The species described below as members of the genus Araucarites 

 are founded on fossil cones possessing features characteristic of the 

 female shoots of recent species of Arauoaria. The data at our 

 disposal are not sufficiently complete to enable us to define with 

 clearness or certainty the distinguishing features of the various 

 examples of cones; the important fact is that fossil cones from 

 several localities and from different sub-stages of the Jurassic system 



