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consisting of small tracheides with two or three rows of pits and of 

 medullär}^ rays, both multiseriate and uniseriate but of no great 

 height. 



Lepidostrobiis Fischeri (since re-named L. kentuckiensiSj Scott) 

 is a large cone of the same general type as the well-known L. Brownii. 



The species described fall into three categories: 



1. Fossils of the same type as certain of Unger's Saalfeld 

 plants: Calainopitys americana (and its Kalymma), Calamopteris Hip- 

 pocrepis, Periastrum perforatuni. 



2. Fossils of altogether new genera: Stereopteris annularis, Ar- 

 chaeopitys Eastnianii. 



3. A fossil of a familiär Lower Carboniferous type: Lepidostro- 

 bus Fischeri (r=z L. kentuckiensis). 



The fossils under the first of these headings are sufficient to 

 establish a close relation between the Kentuck}'' flora, as given 

 above, and that of the Thuringian beds described by Unger. The 

 two new genera enhance the peculiar character of the Kentucky 

 group of fossils. The Lepidostrobiis is the type of fossil to be expected 

 from a Lower Carboniferous horizon. 



The authors conclude that the evidence of the Kentucky plants, 

 coUectively, appears to be in harmonj'^ with a position at the base 

 of the Lower Carboniferous, but, taken by iiself, it would not be 

 inconsistant with a greater antiquity, going back to the Upper 

 Devonian. W. B. Turrill (Kew). 



Scott, D. H., Lepidostrobiis kentuckiensis, nomen nov., formerly 

 Lepidostrobiis Fischeri, Scott and Jeffrey: a correction. 

 (Proc. Roy. Soc. LXXXVIII. p. 435-436. 1915.) 



In a paper by the author and Prof. Jeffrey published in the 

 Phil. Trans. R. Soc. 1914 a new species of Lepidostrobus was descri- 

 bed from the Waverley Shale of Kentucky under the name, L. 

 Fischeri. It is now admitted that this name is not available, another 

 fossil cone having been described in 1890 b)' M. B. Renault, under 

 the same name, L. Fischeri. The name L. kentuckiensis is now pro- 

 posed for the Kentucky plant. W. B, Turrill (Kew). 



Stopes, M. C, The "fern ledges" Carboniferous flora of 

 St. John New Brunswick. (Mem. Canada Dept. Mines, Geolog. 

 Survey, N^. 41. p. 142. 1914.) 



The foUowing plants are described or referred to in thiswork» 

 many of them being represented by text-figures or plates: 



Calaniites Suckowi Brogn., Calaniites sp., Calainostachys sp., 

 Asterophyllites acicularis Dawson, A. parvulus Dawson, AsterophyUi- 

 tes sp., Annularia sphenophylloides Zenker, A. stellata Wood, A. lati- 

 folia Kidston, Sphenophylluni antiquum Dawson, S.? cuneifolium 

 Zeiller, Lepidodendron sp., Lycopod foliage, Lepidodendron sp. in 

 "Bergia" condition, Sigillaria sp., Stigmaria ficoides ßrongn., Psilo- 

 Phyton elegans Dawson, Sphenopteris niarginata Dawson, 5. valida. 

 Dawson, Crossotheca Hoeninghausi Brongn , Diplothmema subfurca- 

 tum Dawson, Oligocarpia splendens (Dawson) Stopes, Pecopteris Mil- 

 toni Artis, P. phunosa iVrtis, Alethopterls lonchitica Schloth.. Mega- 

 lopteris Dawsoni Hartt, Adiantites obtusus (Dawson) Stopes, Neurop- 

 teris heterophylla Brongn., N. eriana Dawson, N. gigantea Sternberg, 

 N Selwyni Dawson. ,Neiiropteris sp., Trigonocarpum perantiouum 



