FRUITS OF CONIFERS. 



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sible to determine whether they belong to the same species 

 as the stems and leaves that occur with them. Several cones 

 of a species of Cycas or Zamia were found with bones of 

 the Iguanodon in Sandown bay.* 



Lign. 93. — Fossil fruits from the Wealden. 



Fig 1. Supposed seed-vessel of Clathraria Lyellii. 2. Cone from the Isle of 

 Purbeck. 3. Cone from Kent. 4. Cone from Pippingford, Sussex. f 



A considerable number of small oval nuts or carpolithes 

 (I/ign. 93, fig. 1), have been obtained from the Tilgate grit ; 

 these are considered by M. Adolphe Brongniart as probably 

 belonging to the Clathraria. 



The fossil fruits or cones figured in Lign. 93, figs. 2, 3, 4, 

 are evidently referable to different kinds of coniferous trees. 



* Geology of the Isle of Wight, p. 138. One of these cones is figured 

 in Medals of Creation, vol. i. p. 160. 



f Figs. 2, 3, 4, are reduced one-half from Dr. Fitton's Memoir, PI. 

 XXII. Geolog. Trans, vol. iv. 



