Palaeontologie. 159 



The pinnules attached to the pedicels of the seeds do not 

 differ in form or nervation from the ordinary foliage pinnules of 

 Neuropteris heterophylla. Some of the pinnules show a slight 

 widening of the base, and seem to be attached to a basal 

 expansion somewhat of the nature of a cupule. This semi- 

 cupule-like structure does not seem to completely Surround the 

 seed as in Lagenostoma Lomaxi, but is more in the form of 

 a subtending bract, and probably served as a protection to the 

 seed during the early stages of its development. 



Attention is also called to a specimen, first described by 

 the same author in 1887, from the Lower Coal Measures of 

 Fife (Scotland), consisting of a branched axis bearing the 

 ordinary pinnules of Neuropteris heterophylla below, and small 

 bodies, apparently split into four arms or valves, at the termi- 

 nations oi the dichotomously divided branches. The structure 

 of the terminal bodies cannot be clearly made out, but they 

 are regarded by the author as the pollenbearing organs of this 

 species. Arber (Cambridge). 



Kidston, R., Some fossil plants collected from the 

 Ayrshire Coalfield bv Mr. A. Sinclair. (Kilmarnock 

 Glenfield Rambiers Society, Annais 1901 — 1904. No. 4. p. 

 14—15.) 

 A list of species from the Lower Coal Measures of Kil- 

 marnock, includingseveral, such as Aphlebia crispa (Gutbier), 

 Sigillaiia rugosa (Brong.) and Sphenopterls artemislaefolioides 

 (Crepin), which are rare on this horizon, and characteristic of 

 higher beds. Arber (Cambridge). 



Knowlton, Frank Hall, Fossil Plants from Kubak Bay. 



(Harriman Alaska Expedition. IV. 1904. p. 149—162. 



PI. XXII— XXXII.) 



The plants recorded in this paper were collected by Mr. 

 De A. Saunders in Kubak Bay, on the Alaska Pen in- 

 su la, a little north-west from Kodiak Island, of the twenty- 

 five species described, all are from the Upper Eocene. Both 

 Dicotyledons and Coniferae are abundantly represented, together 

 with Equisetum globulosum, of the nine families represented, 

 the Pinaceae appears to be the richest both in forms and in 

 individuals, the leading type being Taxodium distichum mioce- 

 num. It is also of interest to note that of ten species pre- 

 viously known, four of them have never been found outside of 

 Alaska, while the remainder are abundantly characteristic of 

 the same region. D. P. Penhaliow. 



Tarr, R. S., Artesian Well Sectio ns at Ithaca, New 

 York. (Journ. of Geol. XII. 1904. p. 78 u. 79.) 



The account of borings made for the purpose of securing 

 an abundant water supply, records the occurrence of Piuus 



