. Fossil plants : for students of botany and geology . Paleobotany. XLIX] PHYLLOCLADITES 413 pft*~" by a flat border and it may be that the latter is the impression of a sarcotesta. Another possible interpre- tation is that the oval bodies are seeds in intimate association with fertile bracts. The strobilus bears a close resemblance to Stachyotaxus elegans from the Khaetic of Sweden compared by the author of the species with an ovuliferous shoot of Podocarjms spicata and Dacrydium FranJdini and believed to be allied to the recent genus Dacrydium, a view upheld by Miss Gibbs^ in her
. Fossil plants : for students of botany and geology . Paleobotany. XLIX] PHYLLOCLADITES 413 pft*~" by a flat border and it may be that the latter is the impression of a sarcotesta. Another possible interpre- tation is that the oval bodies are seeds in intimate association with fertile bracts. The strobilus bears a close resemblance to Stachyotaxus elegans from the Khaetic of Sweden compared by the author of the species with an ovuliferous shoot of Podocarjms spicata and Dacrydium FranJdini and believed to be allied to the recent genus Dacrydium, a view upheld by Miss Gibbs^ in her account of recent Podocarps. It is not improbable that Strobilites Milleri is more closely alUed to the Podocarpineae than to any other family of Conifers. Saxegothopsis Dusen. In his account of a Tertiary flora, possibly Ohgocene, from localities on the Magellan straits Dusen^ describes a single leaf as Saxegothopsis fuegianus on the ground that it resembles the leaves of (Saxe-Tj," „„„ „, ,.,., ,..„ . ° . Fia. 797. Strobilites Milhn. gothaea cons'picvM. The lamina, rather less than 2 cm. long, is linear-lanceolate with a spinous apex and a short stalk; no veins are shown in the drawing. There is no substantial reason for regarding this solitary fossil as a fragment of a Conifer allied to Saxegothaea. Dusen admits the lack of satisfactory evidence indicating generic identity, but the specimen hardly merits the distinction of being made the type of a new (After burgh size.) Seward; Edin- Museum; nat. Phyllocladineae. PHYLLOCLADITES. Heer. This generic name was given by Heer* to a fossil, subsequently transferred to a new genus Drepanolepis^ (fig. 798, C), which affords 2 Gibbs (12) p. 539. 1 Nathorst (08^) PI. n. figs. 1—27. » Dusen (99) p. 105, PI. xi. fig. 10. " Heer (75) ii. p. 124, PI. xxxv. figs. 17—21. Nathorst (97) p. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for read
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