Palaeontologie. 551 



schliesst mit einigen Bemerkungen zu der Charakteristik Steen- 

 strups. Kund Jessen (Köbenhavn). 



Kidston, R., On the Fossil Flora of the Staftordshire 

 Goal Fields. Part. III. The Fossil Flora of the West- 

 phalian Series of the Staffordshire Goal Field. (Trans. 

 Roy. Soc. Edinburgh. L. p. 73—190. pl. 5—16. 1914. 



As the title implies, the present monograph deals only with one 

 of the Carboniferous floras of South Staffordshire, the West- 

 phalian, but this flora is particularly rieh, and no less than 154 

 species are recorded. Of these twenty are new, namely, Sphenopte- 

 ris deltiforniis , S. kilimlii, Coseleya (nov. gen.) s^lomerata, Pecopteris 

 hepaticaefonnis, Neuropteris carpentieri, Palaeostachya minuta, Sphe- 

 nophylluni tenuissiniuin , Sigülana pitnctinigosa, Lepidocarpon west- 

 phalicum, Samaropsis qiiadnovata, Tripterospevinuni ellipticum, T. 

 johnsoni, Polyptevosperrnum ovatutn, Lagenostorna ohlonga, L. (?) 

 urceolaris, Rhabdocavpiis venaiüti, R. oliveri, Hexagonocarpiis hookeri, 

 Whittleseya (?) fertilis and Dicranophyllum anglicum. Several others 

 are new records for Britain. 



Many of the plants are of great botanical interest. In the case 

 of Zeillerin avoldensis cupule-like structures are figured which pro- 

 babl3^ contained seeds, in addition to the smaller fructifications which 

 were probably microsporangia. 



Coseleya is a new genus of sporangia occurring in dense sessile 

 masses, which were possibly the microsporangia of a Pteridosperm. 



Neuropteris carpentieri is a microsporangium-bearing frond, from 

 which it was possible to obtain spores by maceration , and though 

 undoubtedly belonging to Neuropteris, its specific affinities are 

 uncertain. 



Sphenophyllum tenuissimum is a fertile plant of the 5. majus 

 type, with sporangia in groups of four borne on the stems without 

 any cone formation. 



Lepidocarpon westphalicum is a remarkable specimen, occurring 

 in an ironstone nodule, of a cone-axis in a small part of which the 

 sporangia have been preserved quite uncompressed. The tract and 

 sporangiophores have disappeared. The presence of remains of inte- 

 guments, and several other characters, indicates that the fossil is 

 a Lepidocarpon, and not an ordinary Lepidostrobus. 



The specimens described as Whittleseya (?) fertilis are sporan- 

 gial Organs consisting of two parallel-veined scales, in man}»- of 

 which microspores were detected. It is suggested that if these fertile 

 scales are rightly referred to Whittleseya, that genus would pro- 

 bably have affinities with cycads rather than with Ginkgo. 



Several of the seeds in the ironstone nodules are fairly well 

 preserved, so that their internal Organisation can be made out to 

 some extent, (e. g. in Rhabdocarpus oliveri). W. N. Edwards. 



Mathiassen, M. J., Lidt om Nutids- og Fortids-Plank- 

 daehket i Moglemose ved Mullerup. [Etwas Über die 

 Pflanzendecke der Jetztzeit und Vorzeit in Magiemoor 

 bei Mullerup]. (Botanisk Tidsskrift. XXXIII. p. 175-196. 2 Kart. 

 5 Fig. Köbenhavn 1913.) 



Das grosse Magiemoor bei Mullerup naher Stagelse in 

 West-Seeland ist durch die sehr alte Wohnstelle der Steinzeit — 



