. Fossil plants : for students of botany and geology . Paleobotany. 432 BENNETTITAIiES [CH. corona (fig. 547, C, r). As akeady stated, the lenticular disc is probably not an expanded part of the axis but the result of the preservation of a spreading mop-like cluster of interseminal. R:g. 548. Williamsimia gigas. Restoration showing an ovulate strobilus bearing a terminal infundibuliform appendage. Xignier, to whom the restoration is due, points out that the apical portion of the axis at dl should be represented as straight and not, as in the figure, horizontally expanded, bi, bracts; as, persi
. Fossil plants : for students of botany and geology . Paleobotany. 432 BENNETTITAIiES [CH. corona (fig. 547, C, r). As akeady stated, the lenticular disc is probably not an expanded part of the axis but the result of the preservation of a spreading mop-like cluster of interseminal. R:g. 548. Williamsimia gigas. Restoration showing an ovulate strobilus bearing a terminal infundibuliform appendage. Xignier, to whom the restoration is due, points out that the apical portion of the axis at dl should be represented as straight and not, as in the figure, horizontally expanded, bi, bracts; as, persistent interseminal scales forming the annular zone; r, receptacle; cs, caducous megasporophyUs and interseminal scales; dl, persistent inter- seminal scales, an extension of which formed the large funnel-lite appendage, at; ap, apex of the receptacle. (After Lignier.) scales. This is the view expressed by Lignier^ who kindly fur- nished the block from which fig. 548 is reproduced. The lower ' Lignier (03).. 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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