MR. CLEMENT REID ON PARADOXOCARPU3 CARINATUS. 383 
Towards the end of October last I received from Professor Alfred 
Nehring, of Berlin, some undetermined fruits and seeds obtained 
from a deposit, apparently interglacial, at Klinge, near Cottbus, 
not far from Berlin ; and amongst them were specimens of the 
bolster-shaped fruit of the Cromer Forest-bed. I immediately 
informed Professor Nehring that this plant was known to us as 
a fossil, but that none of the botanists to whom I had shown the 
specimens during the last fifteen years had been able to recognise 
it as a living species. Professor Nehring afterwards described and 
figured it under the name Parculoxocarpus carinatus .* 
With regard to the systematic position of this peculiar fruit 
there is still the greatest uncertainty ; and it is on account of this 
uncertainty that neither Mr. Carruthers nor I had ventured to 
describe the plant as a new species. Now, however, that the 
German specimens have been named and figured, it may be 
advisable to describe and figure our English ones, for neither of 
the published illustrations t is altogether satisfactory ; and the bad 
illustrations will lead botanists to imagine that the Forest-bed 
fruit belongs to a different species from that found in Germany. 
Comparison of the actual specimens side by side shows only the 
most unimportant varietal differences. 
I’ARADOXOCARPUS CARINATUS, Nehring (=■ Folliculites carinatus , Potouie) 
from the Cromer Forest-bed at Beeston (enlarged 2\ times). 
Endocarp, 1 1 mm. in length, thick woody cylindrical, slightly 
curved or straight, except the proximal end which curves sharply 
towards the axis so that the scar of attachment appears to be 
* ‘ Naturwissenscliaftliche Wochenschrift,’ vol. vii. p. 451 , No. 45 , 6 Nov., 
1802. A much better figure of the fruit from Klinge has since appeared 
(‘ Gesellschaft uaturforschender Frcunde,’ 1893, p. 57). 
+ Op. cit. ; sec also Dr. H. Potonid, “ ttber die Rathselfrucht ( Paradoxo - 
carpus carinatus , A. Nehring) aus dem diluvialen Torflager von Klinge bei 
Kottbus” (‘Gesellschaft uaturforschender Freuudc, 1 1892, No. 10, p. 205). 
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