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II.—On some Fossil Coniferous Fruits

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

William Carruthers
William Carruthers
Affiliation:
Botanical Department, British Museum.
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It was my intention to have devoted this paper to the Coniferous Fruits found in Strata of Secondary age in Britain, reserving for future examination, those belonging to the later periods, but in the progress of my investigations I have found that, two remarkable cones, which have hitherto been considered as belonging to the Greensand, are certainly Tertiaryfossils; and having placed them on the plates which illustrate this paper, I shall include them in my descriptions.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 3 , Issue 30 , December 1866 , pp. 534 - 546
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1866

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page 535 note 1 Lindley spelled this word Dion, omitting the second o, after the example of the ancients—as, for example, εϰωσμòѕ, (Aristotle, Hist. Anim.) Dioon is therefore incorrect.

page 536 note 1 A striking illustration of the futility of the opposite course to that advocated above is afforded by the fossil known as Strobilites Woodwardii, Lindl. Göppert, in his “ Fossilen Coniferen,” p. 210, establishes the genus Laricites for this fossil, it being the only known species of the genus. Professor Heer, however, when, some timeago, examining the Tertiary fossils in the British Museum, showed my colleague, Mr. H. Woodward, that it was only the axis of a cone, with the scales bitten off, (by a squirrel?) leaving thin stumps, I have examined the specimens and am satisfied that this is really the case.