454 FOSSIL PLANTS OF BRITAIN. 



FUNGI. 



Excipulites, Gopp. 



Sessile, naked, and cup-shaped ; perithecia horny, nearly closed, and fi- 

 nally opening with a rounded entire mouth. 



Excip. Neesii, Gopp. page 262, tab. 36, fig. 4. Coal mea- 

 sures, Waldenburg, Silesia. 



Polyporites, Lindl. 



Polyp. Bowmanni, Lindl. and Hutt. i. tab. 65. Coal mea- 

 sures, Denbighshire. 



No fossil Hepatica or Musci at present known in England. 



FILICES. 



Ferns, the stems only known, 

 Caulopteris, Lindl. 



Stem cylindrical, closely marked by large, oblong, convex, uneven scars, 

 wider than the tortuous depressed spaces that separate them. 



Caul, punctata, Gopp. page 449. Lepidodendron puncta- 

 tum, Sternb. part i., page 13, tab. 4 & 8, fig. 2. Coal 

 measures, Kauritz, Bohemia. 



primceva, Lindl. and Hutt. tab. 42. Sigillaria Lind- 



leyi, Brong. Coal measures, Radstock, Bath. 



Phillipsii, Lindl. and Hutt. tab. 140, page 161. Coal 



measures, Camerton, Somerset. 



Singeri, Gopp. tab. 41, fig. 1, 2. Sandstone, Giers- 



dorf, Silesia. 



Karstenia, Gopp. 



Caudex even, covered by cicatrices which are arranged in a spiral man- 

 ner ; cicatrices orbicular, convex, and teated in the centre, each girded by 

 an elevated or flattish ring, and often destitute of any ring. 



Kars. omphalostigma, Gopp. tab. 33, fig. 1. Coal measures, 

 Charlottebrunn, Silesia. 



mammillaris, Gopp. tab. 33, fig. 4, 5. Coal measures, 



Charlottebrunn. 



Cottjsa, Gopp. 



Stem even, probably ascending, clothed by the lower parts of the stipes, 

 which are disposed spirally. 



Cot. danceoides, Gopp. page 452 ; Jager, tab. 7, fig. 6. Keu- 

 per, Stuttgard. 



