part 2] PREGLACIAL FLORAS FROM CASTLE EDEK. 139 



•Carpolithes sp. 2. 



Length =4 - 7 mm. ; breadth (incomplete) = 2 - 5 mm. 



A fragment of a large thick-walled endocarp, the surface of 

 which is much decayed, but shows granulation ; two longitudinal 

 bands of fibres can be seen, one in the middle, and the other at the 

 margin. 



A pyritized fragment from which the testa has decayed shows 

 two cylindrical cotyledons, with an apical depression from which 

 the gemnnde has been lost. It agrees in size with the endocarp, 

 and may perhaps belong to it. 



Since description both these specimens have disintegrated and 

 •crumbled away. 



CARPorviTiiES sp. 3. (PL X, fig. 20.) 



A small, cylindrical object quinquelobate at the flat base, the 

 lobes ending above in a ring of Five dome-like prominences. 

 Diameter =2 mm. ; depth = 2 mm. 

 The specimen may be a placenta. 



Carpolithes sp. -1. (PI. X, fig. 21.) 



Two minute adherent seeds or nuts, ovoid, cylindrical, rough. 

 Length = "55 mm. ; breadth = ~oo mm. 



Carpolithes sp. 5. (PL X, tigs. 22 a & 22 b.) 



Half a seed or endocarp, obovate, inflated, thick-walled ; the 

 micropyle appears to have been terminal, and the attachment basal. 

 Length=3 mm.; breadth=l"76 mm. 



Carpolithes sp. 6. (PL X, fig. 23.) 



Height:=l , 2 mm.; diameter=l mm. 



A small, nearly globose object seated on a disc, or a broken 

 cupule, apiculate, having a large basal foramen. At the edge of 

 the cupule on one side there appears to be a small lateral stalk. I 

 am cpiite at a loss to understand the relation between the basal 

 foramen and the lateral stalk. The form of this specimen suggests 

 a fruit with an adherent calyx ; but I cannot interpret the structure. 



Carpolithes sp. 7. (PL X, fig. 24.) 



Seed irregularly cylindrical, surface gnarled and nodular, testa 

 black and shining; hilum apparently basal, but difficult to make out. 

 Length=l # 5 mm.; diameter =1 mm. 

 I can make no suggestion as to the affinities of this seed. 



Carpolithes sp. 8. (PL X, figs. 25 a & 25 b.) 



Seed (?) ovate-pointed, biconvex, thin-walled ; attachment 

 basal, marked by a cup-shaped lipped projection, arillate (?) ; 

 germinating by a special valve (missing) which seems to have 

 been round, the edges of the valvular opening are involute ; a 



