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ABIETINEIE. 
Genus— PSEUDOPINUS. 
Gen. Char. — Strobili parvi subglobosi squamae pin res axi spiraliter 
insertae, imbricatae, apice in apophyim. irregular iter yerrucosam incrassatae, 
persistentes. Polia solitaria, perennia, plana, breviter petiolata. 
Pseudopinus Wilkinsoni, sp. nov. 
PI. VIII, Figs. 12-18. 
Sp. Char. — P. foliis brcvibus rigidiusculis linearibus obtusis, basi in 
petiolum brevem attennatis, snlco lacvi longitudinali notatis ; pulvinis ramo 
adnatis decurrentibus, sursuin incrassatis, cicatricibus semi-orbicularibus ; 
strobilis ovali-snbglobosis 8-12 mm longis, 5-8 mm latis, squamis minimis cras- 
siusculis convexis snblignescentibus, apice rotundato-obtusis, apophysi panllo 
prominente subrliombea verrucosa apicali ; seminibus minimis alatis, ala 
nucleo duplo longiore, truncata. 
Obs. — A most remarkable Abietinea, which is on one side related to 
the genus Inolepis of the Cretaceous Mora of North Greenland, and on the 
other to Finns, a genus wanting in the Southern Hemisphere at the present 
time. It is represented by cones and their impressions, seeds, leafed and 
unleafed branchlets, rachis of branchlets, and separate leaves. The cones arc 
still smaller than in Inolepis, which, I believe, does not belong to the 
Cupressineae but to the Abietineae. Both genera nearly correspond with each 
other in the shape of the cones, and in the arrangement and form of the 
scales. But our genus differs from Inolepis by other qualities of the scales, 
being more numerous, not coriaceous but ligneous, on their back somewhat 
verrucose, and on the apex noted with a small, nearly rliomboidal summit or 
apophysis. The latter, in Pig. 14a, representing a fragment of a scale 
magnified, shows some verrucous structure. Of longitudinal ribs, like those 
of Inolepis, there are no traces, but only equally thin striae are visible. Close 
to an impression of a cone, I have seen on the same stone a very small seed 
(Pig. 15, natural size, Pig. 15a, magnified). It shows a roundish oval nucleus, 
and a very tender wing, which is scarcely twice the length, thin, mem- 
branaceous and truncate. Notwithstanding its smallness, it resembles much 
the winged seeds of a Finns. 
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