. Studies in fossil botany . Paleobotany. 68 STUDIES IN FOSSIL BOTANY below the first, consisting of the sporangiophores (see Fig. 29). Thus the relative position of bracts and sporangiophores is just the reverse of that in Palaeo- stachya. According to Fischer's observations the bracts and sporangiophores were not free whorls, but were partly united to each other, an important point of. Fig. 28.—Cingularia typica. Part of branch, bearing whorled leaves and a lax cone, with whorled bracts. Nat. size. After Weiss. analogy with the Sphenophyllales. (See next chapter, p. 99).1 The strap-shaped sp
. Studies in fossil botany . Paleobotany. 68 STUDIES IN FOSSIL BOTANY below the first, consisting of the sporangiophores (see Fig. 29). Thus the relative position of bracts and sporangiophores is just the reverse of that in Palaeo- stachya. According to Fischer's observations the bracts and sporangiophores were not free whorls, but were partly united to each other, an important point of. Fig. 28.—Cingularia typica. Part of branch, bearing whorled leaves and a lax cone, with whorled bracts. Nat. size. After Weiss. analogy with the Sphenophyllales. (See next chapter, p. 99).1 The strap-shaped sporangiophores separate from one another as they approach the exterior, and further to the outside each divides into two lobes, as shown in Fig. 29. Looking at the under surface of a fertile whorl, we notice on each of the flattened sporangiophores four prints, which are known to have 1 See Ed. Fischer, " Einige Beme'rknngen Uber die Calamarieen-gattung Cingularia," Mitth. d. Naturf. Gesellsch. in Bern, 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 Scott, Dukinfield Henry, 1854-1934. London, A. and C. Black
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