490 Fossil Plants from the Lanarkshire Coal-field. 



rows of cells, and his fig. 2, pi. xxi., shows these finer lines 

 strongly magnified, and certainly they here appear more like 

 rows of tabular cells than veins ; but Weiss, in his description 

 of the species, calls them nerves. Only very perfectly pre- 

 served specimens can decide whether the finer lines placed 

 between the strong nerves are rows of cells or finer nerves. 



The plant included here I have little doubt is Germar's 

 species. It is very frequent in the Scotch Coal-fields. 



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



Cardiocaepus, Brongniart. 



Cardiocarpus (Cordaianthus) Lindleyi, Carruthers. 



Cardiocarpon Lindleyi, Carruthers, Notes on some Fossil Plants, figs. 



1 & 2, Geol. Mag. vol. ix. 1872. 

 Cardiocarpon acutum, Lindley & Hutton, Fossil Flora, vol. i. pi. lxxvi. 

 Cardiocarpon apiculatum, Berger & Goppert, Fruct. et semin. p. 23, 



pi. ii. fig. 32. 

 Antholithes Pitcairnice, Lindley &Hutton, FossilFlora, vol. ii. pi. lxxxii. 



Remarks. These little seeds have been found attached to 

 stems, which were previously called Antholithes Pitcairnio? f 

 Lindley & Hutton, by Mr. C*. W. Peach, at the Cleuch, Fal- 

 kirk, and have been described and figured by Mr. Carruthers 

 in the Geol. Mag. vol. ix. 1872. 



As Cardiocarpon Lindley i is almost invariably found 

 associated with Cordaites principalis, it is perhaps the fruit 

 of that species. 



Locality. Bent Colliery, Bellshill. 



CoRDAiANTHUS, Grand'Eury. 

 Cordaianthus, sp. 



Remarks. This specimen is probably a young condition of 

 Antholithes Pitcairnice, L. & H., and is the female inflores- 

 cence of a Cordaites. The fossil shows an axis 3^ inches 

 long, and at its basal extremity it is fully yy inch wide. On 

 each side of the stem is a vertical row of alternate bracts, 

 from the axils of some of which traces of fruit-pedicels can 

 be seen. Each row contains about twenty groups of bracts ; 

 those at the base of the inflorescence are about A inch long 

 and rather less than j^ inch wide ; but they become slightly 

 smaller and more distant towards the upper part of the speci- 

 men, of which, however, the extreme apex is wanting. The 

 structure and number of bracts in each group is not shown. 

 On the same slab is a specimen of Cardiocarpus Lindleyi. 

 This example of Cordaianthus was found associated with 

 Cordaites principalis, Germar, sp. 



Locality. Bent Colliery, about \\ mile E. of Both well. 



