. Fossil plants : for students of botany and geology . Paleobotany. XLVl] TAXODITES 329. Fig. 759. Taxo- dites europaeus. (After Heer; nat. size.) says, it bears a striking resemblance to the existing Chinese type Glyptostrohus heterophyllus. Unger^ describes well preserved specimens from Greece and the species is recorded, on the evidence of cones as well as sterile shoots, from Leoben^ and other localities in Styria^, also from Miocene beds in Bohemia*. Laurent* figures examples from Aquitanian beds in the Puy-de-D6me and Saporta and Marion^ refer to Glyptostrohus europaeus fragments of ster
. Fossil plants : for students of botany and geology . Paleobotany. XLVl] TAXODITES 329. Fig. 759. Taxo- dites europaeus. (After Heer; nat. size.) says, it bears a striking resemblance to the existing Chinese type Glyptostrohus heterophyllus. Unger^ describes well preserved specimens from Greece and the species is recorded, on the evidence of cones as well as sterile shoots, from Leoben^ and other localities in Styria^, also from Miocene beds in Bohemia*. Laurent* figures examples from Aquitanian beds in the Puy-de-D6me and Saporta and Marion^ refer to Glyptostrohus europaeus fragments of sterile branches and an imperfect cone from Pliocene beds in the Province of Ain and mention the occurrence of the same type in Pliocene strata in the valley of the Arno. Vegetative shoots are recorded from Tertiary beds in Bosnia^ and Nathorst^ found the species in Arctic Ellesmere Land. The sterile frag- ments figured by Goeppert and Menge* from the Ohgocene beds on the Baltic coast, though possibly correctly determined, afford no proof of affinity to the genus Glypto- strohus. Some very good specimens from Eocene beds at Beading are described by Gardner^" as examples of this species but the cones are immature and do not furnish convincing evidence of close relationship to the recent genus. The same remark applies to specimens figured by this author from Bournemouth. Specimens from the latter locality, characterised by theii* long slender branches with spirally disposed leaves having long decurrent bases and pro- jecting apices, are referred to a distinct species Taxodium eocaenicum and compared with the Floridan Conifer Taxodium distichum var. imhricataria Mett. Gardner ,points out with reason that specimens described byHeer^^ from Miocene beds in Greenland and Alaska as Glyptostrohus europaeus and from rocks of the same age in 1 Unger (67) PI. I. 2 Ettingshausen (88*) PL 11. = Ibid. (90) PI. I. â ⢠Ibid. (672) Pig. X., XI.; Velenovsky (81); Unger (52) PI. xxxiv. = Laur
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