480 Mr. R. Kidston on some Fossil Plants 



Sauehie, mar Alloa, and Devonside, Tillicoultry, Clackman- 

 nanshire ; and Blairpoint, Dysart, Fife. 

 Locality. Pit, near Airdrie. 



(?) RhIZOCARPEjE. 

 Sphenophyllum, Brongniart. 



Sphenophyllum cuneifolium, Sternberg, sp. 



Sphenophyllum cuneifolium, Zeiller, Veg6t. foss. du terr. bouil. de la 



France, p. 30, pi. clxi. figs. 1, 2. 

 Sphenophyllum erosum, Lindley & Hutton, Fossil Flora, vol. i. pi. xiii. 

 Rotularia cuneifolia, Sternberg, Vers. i. fasc. ii. p. 33, pi. xxvi. fig. 4. 

 Rotularia pusilla, Sternberg, Vers. i. fasc. iv. p. xxxii. 



Localities. Pit, Airdrie; Bent Colliery, about 1| mile E. 

 of Both well. 



FlLICACEiE. 



Sphenopteridese. 

 Renaultia, Zeiller. 



Renaultia microcarpa, Lesquereux, sp. 



Sphenopteris microcarpa, Lesquereux, Coal Flora of Pennsyl. p. 280, 



pi. xlvii. fig. 2. 

 Sphenopteris microcarpa, Kidston, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. x. 



p. 9, pi. i. figs. 7-14. 

 Renaultia (Sphen.) microcarpa, Zeiller, Ann. d. Sciences Nat. 6 e se"r. Bot. 



vol. xvi. p. 185. 



Remarks. The fruit of this species was first described by 

 Lesquereux, but later and more fully by myself. It consists 

 of small oval exannulate sporangia which are situated at the 

 extremities of the veins. 



Localities. Roof of Kiltongue Coal, Mount Vernon ; Pit, 

 near Airdrie. 



Sphenopteris, Brongniart. 



(?) Sphenopteris trifoh'olata 7 Artis (not Brongn.). 



Sphenopteris trifoliolata, Brongn. Prodrome, p. 50. 

 Filicites trifoliolattis, Artis, Antedil. Phyt. pi. xi. 



Remarks. The specimen I refer to this species is small 

 and not in a good state of preservation for a satisfactory 

 determination ; hence this record of the occurrence of this 

 gpecies requires corroboration. 



I have, however, previously seen this species from Wishaw. 



Locality. Bent Colliery, about 1^ mile E. of Bothwell. 



