. Fossil plants : for students of botany and geology . Paleobotany. XLVl] ATHROTAXITES 313 grounds for assuming any direct relationship between the Potomac Conifers and Athrotaxis, and in view of the fact that the American specimens can be accommodated in previously instituted genera, there are no good reasons for retaining Fontaine's name. ATHROTAXITES. Unger emend. The Tasmanian genus Athrotaxis (page 150) is one of the existing Conifers of which our knowledge of morphological features is very. Fig. 753. A, B, D, Athrotaxites Ungeri. C, Athrotaxites lycopodioides. (A, B, D, after Halle; A, n
. Fossil plants : for students of botany and geology . Paleobotany. XLVl] ATHROTAXITES 313 grounds for assuming any direct relationship between the Potomac Conifers and Athrotaxis, and in view of the fact that the American specimens can be accommodated in previously instituted genera, there are no good reasons for retaining Fontaine's name. ATHROTAXITES. Unger emend. The Tasmanian genus Athrotaxis (page 150) is one of the existing Conifers of which our knowledge of morphological features is very. Fig. 753. A, B, D, Athrotaxites Ungeri. C, Athrotaxites lycopodioides. (A, B, D, after Halle; A, nat. size. C, after Saporta; nat. size.) incomplete: its restricted range and the striking resemblance of the vegetative characters to those of many Jurassic species in- cluded in Brachyfhyllum suggest antiquity, but palaeobotanical records have furnished very little evidence of value in support of this conclusion. It is however probable that like several other plants' now confined to the southern hemisphere Athrotaxis is a. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Seward, A. C. (Albert Charles), 1863-1941. Cambridge : University Press
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