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perhaps it is commoner than suspected through being sometimes 

 overlooked. 



In Britain I have observed three species of Lycopodites, 

 exclusive of Lycopodites Vanuxemi, Gopp. sp., which I now 

 remove from Lycopodites and place in a new genus, Archceo- 

 sig Maria. 



The following are the British members of Lycopodites : — ! 



Lycopodites Gutbieri, Goppert. 

 Fig. 2.— B. 

 1837. Lycopodites Gutbieri, Gopp., in Germar's Lelwb. d. 



Mineral, p. 440 (fide Geinitz). 

 1853. ,, ,, Geinitz. Vers. d. Steinkf. in 



Sachsen, p. 32. PI. I., fig. 1. 

 1870. ,, ., Schimper. Traite d. paleont. 



veget.,Vol. II., p. 9. PL LVIL, 

 fig. 4. 

 1894. Lycopodites elongatus, Kidston (not Goldenberg). 



Proc. Roy. Phys. Soc. Edin., Vol. XIT., p. 254. 

 Description. — Plant dividing by dichotomous ramification. 

 R Leaves dimorphic. The larger lateral 



leaves lanceolate, slightly sickle- 

 shaped, single-nerved, and spreading. 

 The two rows on the ventral surface 

 much smaller and closely adpressed 

 to the stem. Fructification in the 

 form of long narrow terminal cones. 

 Remarks. — This species is only 

 " known to me as British by two small 



Fig. 2.— A, Lycopodites ciliatus, specimens from the Radstock Series 

 Kidston ; a, natural size ; (Upper Coal Measures), Camerton, 

 6, leaf enlarged (No. 1743). B, Somersetshire, which were collected 

 Lycopodites Gutbieri, Gopp. ; a, r -. r ttt tt • r\ £ 



,. ., , ' , . by Mr. W. Hemingway. One of 

 portion of branch, natural size; J ° J 



b, leaf enlarged (No. 1501). these shows the fossil ( Na 1501 )> the 



other the impression (No. 1502). 



On the former the lateral leaves only are shown. The impression, 



1 The Lycopoditex ? longibraeteatus, Morris, in Prestwick. Geology 

 Coalbroohdale. Explanation to PL XXXVIII., figs. 8, 9, 10, is a Lepido* 

 dendron. Trans. Oeol. Soc. London, 2nd Ser., Vol. V. 1840. 



