ARAUCAEITES. 139' 



prepared for Dr. Buckland, who communicated tiem to Lindley & 

 Hutton, but we have no information as to the locality or the 

 geological horizon from which the fossils were obtained. In all 

 probability the specimens are of Jurassic age, and form part of 

 a cone closely allied to or identical with Araucarites ooliticus. 



Araucarites Cleminshawi, Mansel-Pleydell. 



[Proc. Dorset Nat. Hist. Antiq. Field Club, vol. v. p. 141, 1885.] 



Under this name Mr. Mansel-Pleydell described an imperfect 

 specimen of a spherical cone, with rhomboidal scales, from the 

 Inferior Oolite of Sherborne, Dorsetshire. The cone is too imperfect 

 to describe in detail, or to refer with any degree of certainty to a 

 specific position. Possibly it may be identical with Araucarites 

 ooliticus, but the data are too meagre to afford satisfactory evidence- 

 as to its relation to other forms; it is doubtless an Araucarian. 

 cone very similar to the other Jurassic examples already described- 



Araucarites, sp. 



SEEDS. 

 (PI. XII. Fig. 6.) 



1836. CarpoUthes, Lindley & Hutton, Foas. Flor. toI. iii. pi. cxciii. fig. A 3, 

 1845. C. eonieus (pars), Buckman, Gaol. Cheltenham, pi. ii. fig. 5c. 

 1871. Carpolithus Lindleyamts, Phillips, Geol. Oxford, p. 173, Diag. xxxii. 

 fig. 1. 



Amongst the various seeds referred by authors to CarpoUthes, 

 there are some which may be identified with a fair degree of 

 probability as Araucarian. Pig. A 3 of pi. cxciii. of the Fossil Flora 

 of Liadley & Hutton, drawn from a Stonesfield specimen, probably 

 represents an Araucarian seed detached from its scale. The term 

 CarpoUthes Lindleyanus has been applied by Phillips and others to 

 seeds of which some are no doubt those of Araucarian cones ; the 

 same name has been used also by Dunker and Schimper for Wealden, 

 seeds' of a distinct type. I do not propose to apply a specific name 



1 Sehimper (70), li. p. 210. 



