THE JURASSIC FLORA OF SUTHERLAND. 



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A few oval spores were isolated, two of which are shown in fig. c ; these are 30m and 

 20/U in size. 



This specimen is probably an inflorescence of male flowers of a Conifer. It bears a 

 close resemblance to a plant described by Zeiller from the Kimeridgian of Spain as 



Text-Fig. 11. 

 A. Masculostrobus Zeilleri gen. ot spec. nov. (nat. size). (Gunn collection.) 

 a, b. Portions of A enlarged, showing the bracts in section (a) and surface-veins (b). 



c. Spores from specimen A. 



d. Masculostrobus sp., showing part of axis with bracts (nat. size). (Gunn collection.) 



e. Spores from specimen d. 



Pseudoasterophyllites Vidali* but in that plant the slender leaves are borne in whorls 

 and the shoot appears to be sterile. Some of the cone-bearing branches described by 

 Fontaine as Athrotaxopsis grandis t from the Potomac beds agree with the Culgower 

 specimen in the occurrence of scattered cones on a common shoot, but otherwise there 



* Zeiller and Vidal (02), pi. ii. t Fontaine (89), pis. cxiv., cxvi. 



