II.—On some Fossil Coniferous Fruits

^{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.