CONIFEEOTJS WOOD. 151 



Lindley & Hutton founded this species on a single cone, 2-5 cm. 

 long and 1-6 cm. broad, obtained from rocks at Burcott "Wood, near 

 Towcester, said to be of Inferior Oolite age. I have not seen the 

 type-fossil, but the specimen as represented in the drawings does 

 not afford sufficient evidence to justify its reference to such a genus 

 as Pinites. We can only leave the fossil as a form of Conites of 

 uncertain systematic position ; there appear to be no good reasons 

 for regai'ding it as Cyeadean. 



Conites depressus (Carruthers). 



[Geol. Mag. vol. vi. p. 2, pi. ii. fig. 10, 1869.] 



1869. Pinites depressus, Carruthers, Geol. Mag. toI. vi. p. 2, pi. ii. fig. 10. 



1875. jP. dejectus, Blake, Quart. Joum. Geol. Soo. Tol. xxxi. p. 222. 



1884. jP. dejeetus, Damon, Geol. Weymoutli, p. 6S. 



1895. F. dejectus, Woodward, Lower Ool. p. 401. 



The original specimen figured by Carruthers is in the British 

 Museum Collection (V. 6370). 



The species was thus diagnosed in 1869 : — 



"Cone small, cylindrical, depressed at the apex; scales short, 

 very broad, thin at the apex." 



Carruthers describes the specimen as imperfect, and probably a 

 young cone ; it was obtained from the Kimeridge Clay of Weymouth. 



V. 6370. Figured by Carruthers (Geol. Mag. vol. vi. pi. ii. 

 fig. 10, 1869). The specimen has partially fallen to pieces, and is 

 much too imperfect to refer to a definite family or generic position. 



Weymouth (Kimeridge Clay). 



CONIFEEOUS WOOD. 



Species of coniferous wood, too imperfectly preserved to examine 

 microscopically, are recorded from the Stonesfield Slate, the Oxford 

 Clay near Peterborough, the Coral Eag of Wotton, and elsewhere. 



v. 2599. Wood partially converted into lignite. 



Pletton, near Peterborough (Oxford Clay). 



Presented ly A. N. Leeds, Esq., 1890. 



40,540. Fragment of lignite ( jet ?). 



Weymouth (Kimeridge Clay). Bowerlanh Coll. 



