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LYCOPODIALKS 



Of the fossils which have been referred to a near affinity with 

 Lycopodium under the name Lycopodites, many have been shown to find 





4 



1. 



FIG. 147. 



Lycofiodites Stor/,-ii, Kidst. i -specimen, natural size : n-/, sporangia; ;-. -.poropliyll. 

 2 = sporophyll enlarged. 4 = smull portion of stem, enlarged, slmwiii.y verticillate leaf- 

 liases. (After Kidston.) 



their true place elsewhere. 1 But some at least of them show distinct 

 Lycopodinous characters : for instance, Lycopodites Stockii, Kidston, from 

 the calciferous sandstone of Dumfriesshire. In habit it is like Lycopodium 



' Kidston, Trans.. Nat. Hist. Soc., Glasgow, vol. vi., p. 32. 



