. Fossil plants : for students of botany and geology . Paleobotany. tA ELATOCLADXrS 431 Halle^ from Graham Land, originally described by Oldham and Morris as Cunninghamites confertus and subsequently removed by Feistmantel to Palissya: the leaves are distichous with a sessile and decurrent lamina attached at a wide angle. The apex of the leaves is obtuse and a midrib is present. In Elatocladus conferta Halle in- cludes the Australian form Palissya australis as figured by Stirling^. Elatocladus zamioides (Leckenby ex Bean ms.). This type, from the Middle Jurassic of Yorkshire, was described by
. Fossil plants : for students of botany and geology . Paleobotany. tA ELATOCLADXrS 431 Halle^ from Graham Land, originally described by Oldham and Morris as Cunninghamites confertus and subsequently removed by Feistmantel to Palissya: the leaves are distichous with a sessile and decurrent lamina attached at a wide angle. The apex of the leaves is obtuse and a midrib is present. In Elatocladus conferta Halle in- cludes the Australian form Palissya australis as figured by Stirling^. Elatocladus zamioides (Leckenby ex Bean ms.). This type, from the Middle Jurassic of Yorkshire, was described by Leckenby^ as Cycadites zamioides. and subsequently transferred ^^^ ^^^ ^a ^^^s ^^0% r •^^^S w^sSK^m **^^—^ ^^^^^SS^^^^^ Qifl^^^^l^^i a jj-,^ -^^^aj/lM l^^H^H. Fig; 802. Elatocladus plana. (Specimens figured by Feistmantel as Taxites planus; nat. size.) to Taxites*. The type-specimen, in the Sedgwick Museum, Cam- bridge, consists of a slender axis bearing two-ranked spirally » HaUe (132) p. ge^ pi. yni. = Stirling (00) PI. in. figs. 8, 9. ? Leckenby (64) A. p. 77, PI. vin. fig. 1. « Seward (00) B. p. 300, PI. x. 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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