. Fossil plants : for students of botany and geology . Paleobotany. 308 CTJPEESSINEAE [CH. sufficient clearness morphological features that justify the con- clusion that the specimens agree more closely with Libocedrus than with Thuya or Thujopsis. The present discontinuous dis- tribution of Libocedrus (page 126) is favourable to the view that it was formerly much more widely spread, but despite the very. Fig. 752. Cupressinocladus salicornoides. (After linger; nat. size.) close resemblance between the sterile shoots of the Tertiary Conifer to those of some existing species of the genus it wou
. Fossil plants : for students of botany and geology . Paleobotany. 308 CTJPEESSINEAE [CH. sufficient clearness morphological features that justify the con- clusion that the specimens agree more closely with Libocedrus than with Thuya or Thujopsis. The present discontinuous dis- tribution of Libocedrus (page 126) is favourable to the view that it was formerly much more widely spread, but despite the very. Fig. 752. Cupressinocladus salicornoides. (After linger; nat. size.) close resemblance between the sterile shoots of the Tertiary Conifer to those of some existing species of the genus it would be unwise to adopt the designation Libocedrus or Libocedrites. Heer^ described fragments from Miocene strata in Greenland as Libocedrus Sabiniana including a supposed cone-scale, which is too indistinct to be determined. To this species Beust refers some petrified wood from the same locality. The sterile specimens recorded by Gardner^ from the Woolwich beds of Kent as Libo- cedrus adpressa, though similar to L. salicornoides, are no doubt specifically distinct: they are valueless as evidence, of the existence of Libocedrus. Laurent^ also records the species from Aquitanian beds in the Puy-de-D6me. 1 Heer (83) p. 58, Pis. Lxx., lxxxvi., lxxxvii. ; Beust (85) p. 40, Pis. m., v. 2 Gardner (86) p. 25, PI. ii. figs. 17—20. ' Laurent (12) 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. Cambridge : University Press
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