. Fossil plants : for students of botany and geology . Paleobotany. 380 ABIETINEAE [ branches are associated numerous needles, 1 mm. broad and at least 5 cm. long, sometimes covering the whole surface of the rock. The specimens agree closely with the foliage-shoots of Pityites Solmsi: similar examples are described by Ettingshausen^ from Li- assic strata as Halochloris haruthina Btt. A branch with short shoots from Jurassic rocks in Amurland described as Pinites sp. cf. P. kobukensis^ may be specifically identical with the Dzungaria fossils: an example of the same type lent to me by Dr Kry
. Fossil plants : for students of botany and geology . Paleobotany. 380 ABIETINEAE [ branches are associated numerous needles, 1 mm. broad and at least 5 cm. long, sometimes covering the whole surface of the rock. The specimens agree closely with the foliage-shoots of Pityites Solmsi: similar examples are described by Ettingshausen^ from Li- assic strata as Halochloris haruthina Btt. A branch with short shoots from Jurassic rocks in Amurland described as Pinites sp. cf. P. kobukensis^ may be specifically identical with the Dzungaria fossils: an example of the same type lent to me by Dr Krystofovic from Jurassic beds of Amurland shows a forked lateral foliage-shoot. This author has recently described a specimen from Jurassic rocks in Transbaikalia as Pin- ites [Pityofhyllum) cf. P. kobukensis^. Similar though smaller specimens Re- 777. Pityodadus kobuken- of Abietineous short shoots are de- scribed by Nathorst* as Pinites (Pityo- dadus) spp. a and b from Upper Jurassic beds in Spitzbergen, and compared by him with Pityites Solmsi. PITYOFHYLLUM. Nathorst. This name^ is applied to detached leaves of needle-like form like those of recent Pines or to long linear leaves broader and flatter than the needles of Pinus. Some of the specimens referred to this genus are very similar to the leaves of Keteleeria. In a few cases (fig. 775) the leaves are still attached to a short shoot but usually they occur as detached specimens (fig. 776). The genus is met with in Rhaetic strata but is specially abundant in Jurassic floras and persists through Cretaceous and Tertiary rocks. The leaves generally described under this generic term are broader and flatter than such leaves as those of Pityites Solmsi^ and recent 1 Ettingshauspn (52) B. PI. Ii. fig. 4. 2 Seward (123) pi nj 3 Krystofovic (15) PI. vi. fig. 9. « Nathorst (97) PI. in. figs. 28—30, PI. iv. figs. 13, 14, 23. 5 Ibid. (97) p. 62. " See page 374; also Nathorst (97) Pi. v. figs. 1—10 sis; b, branch-scar. (After Se
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