Species. 85 



I have not hesitated to place this species in the genus Cycadeoidea be 

 cause Count Solms gives as his only reason for not doing so that the speci 

 men was too imperfect to be certain that it belonged there. He therefore 

 created a new genus (Cycadea) for its reception. Such a course is certain 

 to lead to great confusion. New genera should only be created where the 

 material is so abundant and complete that it can be adequately character 

 ized. This new genus is not even described, and as he admits, could not 

 be from his specimen. It therefore can have no existence. On the other 

 hand the large number of specimens found in Italy, all referable to 

 Cycadeoidea make it altogether probable that this also belongs there. The 

 only other course would be to hold it entirely in reserve. This he has not 

 done but has given it a specific name. 



Cycadeoidea sp. indet. Cap. & Solms. 

 1892. Cycadeoidea sp. indet. Cap. & Solms, Mem. Real. Accad. Sci. 1st. 



Bologna, Ser. V, Tom. II, pp. 176, 181. 

 Fiume Santerno ? Imolese, Italy. Cretaceous ? 



Cycadeoidea Reichenbachiana (Gopp.) Cap. & Solms. 

 1755. Vegetabilische Versteinerung Walch, Knorr's Petrefacten Samm- 



lung, Text, p. 150; Atlas, pi. iiia, fig. 6. 

 1844. Eaumeria lieichenbachiana Goppert, in Wimmer : Flora von 



Schlesien, Ed. TI, Vol. II, p. 217. 

 1853. Jubilaums-Denkschr. d. Schles. Ges. f. vat. Cult., 1853, pp. 



262, 265, pi. viii, figs. 4-7 ; pi. ix, fig. 1. 

 1892. Cycadeoidea Reichenbachiana (Gopp.) Cap. & Solms, Mem. Real. 



Accad. Sci. 1st. Bologna, Ser. V, Tom. II, pp. 186, 187, 188. 

 Lednice near Wieliczka, Galicia. This is the large and now celebrated 

 specimen in the Dresden Museum. Its geologic age is still unknown, but is 

 almost certainly not Permian as conjectured by Geinitz. 



Cycadeoidea Schulziana (Gopp.) Cap. & Solms. 

 1844. Raumeria Schulziana Goppert, in Wimmer : Flora von Schlesien, 



Ed. II, Vol. II, p. 217. 

 1853. JubMaums-Denkschr. d. Schles. Ges. f. vat. Cult., 1853, pp. 



259; 264, pi. vii, figs. 1-5 ; pi. viii, figs. 1-3. 

 1892. Cycadeoidea Schulziana (Gopp.) Cap. & Solms, Mem. Real. Accad. 



Sci. 1st. Bologna, Ser. V, Tom. II, pp. 186, 187. 

 Klodnitz Canal near Gleiwitz, Silesia ; formation unknown. 



Cycadeoidea Schachti (Coem.) Cap. & Solms. 

 1867. Cycadites Sehachti Coemans, Mem. Cour. des Savants Etrangers 



de 1'Acad. Roy. de Belgique, Vol. XXXIII, No. 3, p. 7, pi. 



iii, figs. 1, 2, 5. 

 1870. Clathraria Schachti (Coem.) Schimper, Paleontologie Vegetale, Vol. 



II, p. 212. 

 1^70. Bennettites Schachti (Coem.) Carruthers, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond., 



Vol. XXVI, p. fi99. 

 1892. Cycadeoidea Schachti (Coem.) Cap. & Solms, Mem. Real. Accad. 



Sci. 1st. Bologna, Ser. V, Tom. II, p. 187. 

 Gault of La Louviere, Hainaut, Belgium. 



