. Fossil plants : for students of botany and geology . Paleobotany. XXXVn] WILUAMSONIA 449 'fruit' Podocarya, the specific name Bucklandi being afterwards given by Unger^- Brongniart^ called attention to the resemblance of Buckland's specimen to Williamsonia, and that name has been adopted by Saporta*, Nathorst, and other authors*. Sowerby's drawings illustrating the original description, one of which is reproduced in fig. 560, show that this unusually fine specimen is an ovulate Bennettitean strobilus very similar in its thick conical. Fig. 560. Williamsonia Bucklandi. (After Buckland; f nat.
. Fossil plants : for students of botany and geology . Paleobotany. XXXVn] WILUAMSONIA 449 'fruit' Podocarya, the specific name Bucklandi being afterwards given by Unger^- Brongniart^ called attention to the resemblance of Buckland's specimen to Williamsonia, and that name has been adopted by Saporta*, Nathorst, and other authors*. Sowerby's drawings illustrating the original description, one of which is reproduced in fig. 560, show that this unusually fine specimen is an ovulate Bennettitean strobilus very similar in its thick conical. Fig. 560. Williamsonia Bucklandi. (After Buckland; f nat. size.) receptacle to some of Wieland's species of Cycadeoidea, C. dcLCotensis (fig. 528): the armour of scales and megasporophylls agrees exactly with that of some species of Williamsonia from Yorkshire and with the flowers of Cycadeoidea. Though included in the genus Williamsonia it would not be out of place in Cycadeoidea. Williamsonia scotica Seward. The type-specimen was found by Hugh Miller near Cromarty ( Scotland) and figured as a cone of peculiar form^; it was obtained from a limestone nodule probably derived from Upper Jurassic rocks. The fossil is 11 cm. long and has a maximum 1 Unger (50) A. p. 327. ' Brongniart (49) A. p. 88: » Saporta (91) p. 127, Pis. 238, 239. â â For other references, see Seward (04) B. p. 105. 5 Miller (57) B. p. 480. For a detailed description and illustrations, see Seward (12=). s. m 29. 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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