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foliage met with at Bournemouth, and go far to support its determination. Such an 

 abundance of foliage with a total absence of cones or seeds in a marine deposit is 

 extremely rare. 



The foliage is met with, hardly less abundantly, in many other Eocene localities in 

 Europe, and in some of these fossil cones are not so absolutely unknown. One was figured 

 by Sternberg^ from Haring, completely covered with bracteated scales, as shown in the 

 annexed figures of immature cones of A. imbricata, kindly lent me by Messrs. Veitch, 

 and was considered to be, and described as, the cone of an Araucaria, comparable with 

 A. imbricata It was some years later refigured by Goppert, who believed the cone to 

 belong to the foliage which he then described as Araucarites Sternbergi} A second 



Fig. 23. — Immature male and female cones of A. imbricata. — From Veiteli's ' Manual of the Coniferse.' 



cone was found at Chiavon and figured, together with foliage, by Massalongho ^ as an 

 Araucarites. It was forty-five millimetres long and twenty-seven millimetres wide, with 

 transversely rhomboidal scales, provided with triangulated, unciniform, recurved umbones. 

 Though the photograph is not very distinct, 125 scales can be counted on the exposed 

 half, so that the cone must have been composed of at least 250. None of these botanists, 

 or others, ever doubted that these represented young and immature cones of Araucaria ; 

 but notwithstanding their structure Heer transferred them to Sequoia,^ and in the 



J ' Haarlem Trans.,' 1850, pi. 44. fig. 2, p. 237. 

 2 Specim. Photogr., pi. xxi. 

 Heer seems to have compared it with a different type from Iceland and the Miocene of Turin, with 

 which Sequoia cones are associated, and hence, I believe, changed Sternberg's name. 



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