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in some respects a distinct resemblance to the present species. 

 Carruthers thus describes the Maidstone specimen: "It is a very 

 large leaf, with numerous long linear segments, attached very 

 obliquely to the rachis. The segments are simple on the upper 

 part of the frond, but the lower ones give off, at regular distances, 

 several long and slender ultimate segments." 1 Mr. Carruthers 

 afforded me an opportunity of examining these Lower Greensand 

 specimens, and suggested that the "Wealden examples figured in 

 PI. XIV. Figs. 2 and 3, represent the lateral segments of the 

 Maidstone "frond" with their lateral long and slender segments. 

 Although there undoubtedly exists a distinct resemblance, yet 

 one cannot speak at all positively as to the identity of the two 

 sets of fossils. In the Wernsdorf flora of the northern Carpathians, 

 an abundant and characteristic species is that described by 

 Ettingshausen as Thuites Holieneggeri, Ett., 2 and afterwards by 

 Schenk as Frenelopsis Hohemggeri (Ett.). 3 Of the specimens so 

 named, some of those figured by the latter author present a more 

 or less close resemblance to BecJclesia anomala ; this is especially 

 the case with those represented in Schenk's pi. v. figs. 1 and 2. 

 Frenelopsis was proposed by Schenk as a generic name for plants 

 having a similar habit to the recent genus Frenela, and possessing 

 among other characters cylindrical articulated branches bearing 

 small scaly leaves. The majority of the Wernsdorf examples of this 

 genus show these characters very clearly, but those in pi. v. figs. 1 

 and 2 are apparently without them, and in some degree conform 

 to the present species. Without examining Schenk's material, 

 it is impossible to speak definitely as to the exact nature of these 

 particular examples ; it may be that a difference in age or manner 

 of preservation, is sufficient to account for the apparent absence 

 of the articulations and small leaves. Schenk 4 speaks of these two 

 specimens (pi. v. figs. 1 and 2) as older examples, in which the 

 leaves are only partially preserved. The chief point of contact 

 between the Wealden fossils and those from the Wernsdorf beds, 

 described as older portions of Frenelopsis Hoheneggeri, lies in the 



1 Carruthers (1), p. 697 (footnote). 



2 Ettingshausen (A. 4), Abh. k.-k. geol. Reichs. vol. i. Abth. iii. No. 2, 

 p. 26, pi. i. figs. 6 and 7. 



3 Schenk (A. 3), Palseontographica, vol. xis. p. 13, pis. iv.-vii. 



4 Loc. cit. p. 14. 



