. Fossil plants : for students of botany and geology . Paleobotany. XXX] STKOBILITES 141 of assigning Feistmantel's seeds Carpolithes Milleri^ to the genus Glossopteris: among several specimens from the Lower Gondwana rocks of India I found an example showing a seed partially covered by a scale-leaf in its natural position which appears to be identical with scale-leaves of Glossopteris. It may be that the specimen represented in fig. 433 belongs to Cardiocarpus indicus, though this is a mere guess: my belief is that OttoTcaria is a cupular organ that enclosed the base of a seed borne on a Pter
. Fossil plants : for students of botany and geology . Paleobotany. XXX] STKOBILITES 141 of assigning Feistmantel's seeds Carpolithes Milleri^ to the genus Glossopteris: among several specimens from the Lower Gondwana rocks of India I found an example showing a seed partially covered by a scale-leaf in its natural position which appears to be identical with scale-leaves of Glossopteris. It may be that the specimen represented in fig. 433 belongs to Cardiocarpus indicus, though this is a mere guess: my belief is that OttoTcaria is a cupular organ that enclosed the base of a seed borne on a Pteridosperm. There is little doubt that as additional data are obtained it will be found that Pteridosperms played no inconsiderable part in the vegetation of Gondwana Land. Strobilites. Schimper and Mougeot. Strobilites Milleryensis (Renault). This species, from the Permian of Prance, was placed by Renault in Cycadospadix^, but having regard to the fact that it. Fig. 434. Strobilites Milleryensis. (Natural size; after Renault.) difiers essentially in habit from Mesozoic examples of that genus the provisional name Strobilites^ is suggested. The type-specimens are long and narrow spikes or loose strobili, 8—16 cm. long and 2—2-6 cm. broad; a stout axis bears spirally disposed bracts 8—10 mm. long attached by a slender decurrent pedicel expanded distally into a fan-shaped laciniate lamina with a convex upper 1 Feistmantel (79) B. p. 30; (81) A. p. 59, PI. xxx. fig. 14; (82) B. p. 43, PI. XV. figs. 5—12. Dr Arber [(05) B. p. 205] has substituted for Carpolithes the more appropriate designation Cardiocarpus. ' Renault (96) A. p. 329; (93) A.' PI. Lxxni. a Schimper and Mougeot (44) A. p. 31. Seward (08) B. p. 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. Cam
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