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preserved. Each carpellary scale sustained a pair of seeds, 
and each seed displayed its elongated wing, testa and micellar 
membrane, and in most of them the embryo-sac was con- 
spicuously visible. The fruit is beyond question that of 
one of the Abietinese, and is apparently midway, in its 
leading features, between that of an Abies and of a Pin us. 
Hence the author adopts the nomenclature suggested by 
Mr. Carruthers in reference to the specimen figured in the 
Fossil Flora, and designates the cone Pinites oblongus. 
The specimen was placed in the President’s hands for pub- 
lication, by the Rev. H. H. Win wood, F.G.S., of Bath. 
