GYMNOSPERMiE. 



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acutely pointed, and either divergent or falcate. On the older branchlets the leaves are 

 more obtuse, regularly imbricated, and adpressed, In these and other characters the 

 fossil resembles young shoots of the adult S. gigantea, but differs in the smaller size of 

 its foliage. The branchlets, however, seem to be more thickened at the base, and the scars 

 left by them are so distinct that they must have readily become disarticulated. The cones 

 are very different to those of S. gigantea (figs. 12 and 18), being shortly ovate and globose. 



Fig. 18.— Fertile branch of S. gigantea, grown in Linton Park. Natural size. (From Veitcli's ' Manual 



of the Coniferae.') 



averaging apparently but two thirds of an inch in length, but in size, form, number, and 

 arrangement of scales, tliey approach those of S. sempervirens (fig. 11). The chief differ- 

 ence is in tlie less deeply wrinkled surface and sunk centre of the face of the scale. At 

 Bovey the cones are very much compressed and often distorted, and at Hempstead the 



