JOURNAL OF THE COLLEGE OF SCIENCE, IMPERIAL UNIVERSITY, 



TOKYO, JAPAN. 



VOL XXIII., ARTICLE 8. 



Palaeozoic Plants from China. 



By 

 M. Yokoyama, Rigukuhahushi. 



Professor of Palœontology, Imperial University of Tokyo. 



With 7 plates. 



The Palaeozoic plants treated of in the present paper are 

 those which were mostlv collected bv our o-eoloo'ists in Soutliern 

 Manchuria, during the Japanese occupation of that country in 

 the late Russo-Japanese war, together with those of the Mesozoic 

 on which I published a memoir^^ in this journal, more than a 

 year ago. A few of them, however, are from other parts of 

 China, also brought back by our countrymen, during the war. 



The plants distribute themselves in the following localities : 



I. Yen-tai, Shêng-ching-Shêng.-' 



This is a well known coal-field in Southern Manchuria, 

 north of Liao-yang and east of the South-Manchurian Railway. 

 M. Zalessky"^ of the Geological Survey of Russia had already 

 studied the plants of this place collected by Edelstein in 1903, 

 and distinguished the following species : 



1) Mesozoic Plants from China. Art. 9, Vol. XXI. 



3) Micliœl Zalessky. Notiz über die obercarbonische Flor.i des .Steinkohlenreviers von 

 Jaatai in der südlichen Mandslmrei. Verli. Kais. Russ. Mineral. Gesells., 11. Serie, Bd. XLII. 



