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mucro in the midst, from which several wrinkles start. In shape and size these scales 
exactly tally with those of Bovey Tracey. Beside the scales are young twigs (fig. 1 b, c ), 
and a pretty thick biennial shoot (fig. 1 a) closely covered with falcate leaves. This 
species agrees so well in its leaves and cones with the tree from Bovey, from Armissan, 
and from the lignite of Bixhoft, that its determination may be considered certain. At 
first sight the cone represented in Plate XLI. fig. 7 seems to be longer than those from 
Bovey ; but this greater length certainly arises from the scales having partly separated 
from the axis. 
The long, slender shoots, figured in Plate XLI., prove that the climate must have been 
very favourable to these trees. 
13. Pinus hyperborea , Hr., Plates XLIY. figs. 5 a, c, d ; LVI. 9 c. Hr. El. Foss. Arct. 
p. 94, pi. xvii. fig. 5/’. 
Several leaves are better preserved than those represented in the £ Flora Arctica.’ 
They are hard, leathery, gradually tapered to the pointed apex (Plate XLIY. fig. 6 a, c). 
When highly magnified there appear on each side of the strong medial nerve a number 
of very delicate longitudinal lines and transverse wrinkles. Fig. 5 d is much larger 
than the other leaves, but probably belongs to the same species; it is 9 millims. in 
breadth, with a strong midrib. The leaves differ from Pinus in their length and breadth, 
and recal Podocarpus eocenica , Ung., which possesses similar leaves. 
14. Pinus polaris, Hr., Plate XLIII. fig. 6. Hr. FI. Foss. Arct. p. 157. 
Two partially preserved leaves (Plate XLIII. fig. 6) 1^ millim. broad, flattened, mid- 
rib strong. They agree with the leaf discovered in Spitzbergen last year. Fig. 7 is a 
scale, probably of a Pinus , sectio Picea. 
Y. Taxinea:. 
15. Taxites Olri/ci, Hr., Plate LV. fig. 7 a, b. FI. Foss. Arct. p. 95, pis. i. figs. 21-240 ; 
xlv. 1 <z, b, c. 
Some leaves and a fine twig from Atanekerdluk. The leaves are rather obtuse at the 
apex, and not decurrent at the base. Beside this is a twig with small leaves, obtusely 
rounded at the apex. Belongs probably to CepJicilotaxus. 
16. Scdisburea adiantoides, Ung., Plate XLIY. fig. 1. FI. Foss. Arct. p. 95, pis. ii. 
fig. 1 ; xlvii. 4 a. 
I have already tried to show in my ‘Flora Arctica’ that this species agrees in size and 
appearance with S. adiantifolia of Japan, although the fine leaf figured (FI. Arct. pi. xlvii. 
fig. 16) is not lobed. The collection from Atanekerdluk contains a deeply bilobed leaf, 
only the upper part of which is preserved, but it corresponds so entirely with the living 
species, that it can scarcely be separated from it. 
