. Fossil plants : for students of botany and geology . Paleobotany. 388 ABIETINEAE [CH. The type-specimen bears a resemblance to P. Leckenbyi (fig. 779); the scales are broad and thin at the distal end and the axis is relatively slender. The French specimens from Lower Cretaceous rocks referred by Fliche to this species as Cedrus oblonga are con- sidered by Dr Stopes to be specifically identical with Pityostrohus Fig. 781. Pityostrohus oblongus. (After Lindley and Hutton, from Stopes; nat. size.) Pityostrohus hexagonus (Carruthers). A large cone 15 cm. long and 4 cm. in diameter c
. Fossil plants : for students of botany and geology . Paleobotany. 388 ABIETINEAE [CH. The type-specimen bears a resemblance to P. Leckenbyi (fig. 779); the scales are broad and thin at the distal end and the axis is relatively slender. The French specimens from Lower Cretaceous rocks referred by Fliche to this species as Cedrus oblonga are con- sidered by Dr Stopes to be specifically identical with Pityostrohus Fig. 781. Pityostrohus oblongus. (After Lindley and Hutton, from Stopes; nat. size.) Pityostrohus hexagonus (Carruthers). A large cone 15 cm. long and 4 cm. in diameter composed of stout woody scales with hexagonal apophyses was described by Carruthers as Pinites hexagonus from the Gault of the South of England^; it agrees externally with recent cones of the Pinaster type but the distal ends of the scales are almost flat and nothing is known of the internal structure. The species may be compared with the Lower Cretaceous species P. Quenstedti Heer^. Pityostrohus {Pinites) Andraei (Coemans). The cones of this species (fig. 782), the commonest type in the Lower Cretaceous rocks of Hainault*, are 10—14 cm. long and ' Carruthers (71) p. 2, PI. xv. 3 Coemans (66) p. 12, PI. iv. fi 2 Heer (71^). 4; PI. V. fig. 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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