PSYGMOPHYLLUM. 



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difference of opinion as to its precise affinities. Schimper included 

 it with the Oreads, while in more recent years Zeiller, 1 Seward, 

 and others have provisionally referred it to the Ginkgoales. 

 Mr. Seward 2 has remarked that we have little evidence on this 

 point beyond a not very close resemblance between these leaves 

 and those of the genus Ginkgo. The same author has compared 

 Feistniantel's Euryphyllum Whittianum, here referred to the genus 

 Noeggerathiopsis, with the members of this genus. 



Distribution. — Carboniferous of England, Spitzbergen, Germany. 

 Permian of Russia, France. Per mo - Carboniferous (Glossopteris 

 flora), Cape Colony and ? Kashmir. 



Fig.. 47. — Psygmaphyllum Kidatoni, Seward. After Seward, h nat. sixe- 



1. Psygmophyllum Kidstoni, Seward. 



(Text-fig. 47.) 



1903. Psygmophyllum Kidstoni, Seward, Ann. S. African Mus., vol.lv, pt..l, 

 p. 93, pi. xii, fig. 1. 



Tgpe. South African Mus., Cape Town. 



1 Zeiller (00 1 ), p. 251. 



Seward (03 1 ), p. 92.. 



