species there are no indications of any lateral fertile shoots though, as Dr Stopes says, many of the Portland stems undoubtedly possessed such flowers. This author makes no reference to Buckland’s later description of _C. microphylla_: in this it is stated that the stem bears numerous buds rising from the axillae of petioles, and these are shown in the illustration[1095]. Without access to the actual specimen it is impossible to say whether or not the two ‘laminated circles’ described and figured by Buckland[1096] are two distinct cylinders or parts of one cylinder separated by the infiltration of some inorganic substance. In his description of _Cycadeoidea Yatesii_ Carruthers spoke of the occurrence of two cylinders of wood, and this was confirmed in a subsequent account of the type-specimen[1097]. Dr Stopes gives a fuller account of Carruthers’ type and re-confirm a the existence of two vascular cylinders; she also describes a new species, _C. buzzardensis_[1098] (fig. 578), in which there are 3–8 or more cylinders. Neither of these stems affords any evidence of the possession of fertile shoots; they agree closely with stems of the _Bucklandia_ type in their comparatively slender habit and differ in this respect from Buckland’s Portland species. The occurrence of more than one vascular cylinder in the stems _Cycadeoidea_ (= _Bucklandia_) _Yatesii_ and _C._ (= _Bucklandia_) _buzzardensis_ suggests the possibility that this feature was characteristic of other species included in _Bucklandia_.