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T. G. HALLE, 
(Schwed. Südpolar-Exp. 
size of the leaves towards both the base and the apex of the short specimen. The 
leaves are sessile and decurrent, spread out to two sides at a wide, nearly right, 
angle. They taper gradually towards the apex, which is long and sharply pointed. 
The leaves have a midrib and in some cases (fig. 7 b) a. finer line on each side 
nearer the edge. It is probable that these finer lines are only due to preservation 
or caused by the existence of a groove along the lower side of the leaf. 
In general habit and in the shape and the attachment of the leaves this speci- 
men agrees very closely with sterile shoots of Palissya sphenolepis (Braun) {P. Braiinii 
Endl.). The resemblance is especially obvious in respect to some of the sterile shoots 
figured by Saporta (1884, pi. 68). His fig. 3 shows, like the present fragment, a 
shoot of which the leaves rapidly decrease in size at both the base and the apex and 
which was in all probability a short shoot of limited duration and shed entire. 
Saporta’s specimen is somewhat larger than ours, but otherwise there is no per- 
ceptible difference. It is worthy of note, that ENDLICHER (/. <;.), in the diagnosis of 
his genus Palissya, gives as one of the characters the existence of a longitudinal 
furrow on the lower side of the leaves. As has been mentioned above, there is 
some indication of a similar furrow in the present specimen, but hardly sufficient to 
be convincing. Notwithstanding the great resemblance to Palissya splmiolepis it 
cannot be safe to refer the Antarctic fragment to that genus, which should be re- 
served for such forms as show the Palissya-\.y7>& of cones. 
There is a fairly great resemblance also to a fragment from the Jurassic of 
Sutherland figured by Seward (1911 a, p. 688; pi. 5, fig. 74) under the name Taxites 
sp. The leaves are a little broader and more rapidly pointed in the latter specimen, 
however. Taxites is employed in this connection, as pointed out by Seward, in a 
wide sense; and there is no reason to believe in any particular affinity to the genus 
Taxus. Under such circumstances it seems better to use the wider name Elato- 
cladus for the specimen mentioned as well as for the Antarctic specimen in question. 
Gymnospermæ incertæ sedis. 
Genus Stachyopitys Schenk. 
Stachyopitys cfr. annularoides Spiirley. 
PI. 6, figs. 13, 13 a. 
Stachyopitys annularoides, Shirley 1898, p. 13; pi. 18, fig. 1. 
The specimen figured in pi. 6, figs. 13, 13 rz, probably represents fragments of a 
gymnospermous male strobilus, of the type for which SCHENK (1867, p. 185; pi. 44, 
figs. 9 — 12) instituted the genus Stachyopitys. 
