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cations from the Coal-measures known only in impressions and of an 

 entirely doubtful character. The name Schiitzia anomala, Gein., is given 

 by Geinitz l and Goppert 2 to certain racemose inflorescences, in which a 

 short lateral stalk has the appearance of being enclosed in basket-like 

 involucres which conceal the seeds. There is perhaps a certain similarity 

 of habit between these forms and Gnetopsis. It is scarcely possible to 

 gather more than this from the ill-preserved impressions. The remains 

 of another fossil flower, named by Goppert Dictyothalamus Schrollianus, 

 is found at Braunau in Bohemia and at Neurode in Silesia on the same 

 laminae of clay-slate with Schiitzia. This plant has the habit of Schiitzia, 

 but the lateral axes bear roundish clusters of small cylindrical bodies 

 without an envelope. It seems natural to consider these objects as male 

 inflorescences, and Goppert and Schimper also and Schenk are of opinion 

 that they may belong to Schiitzia. Lastly, panicled inflorescences from 

 the Culm of Rothwaltersdorf have been described by Goppert 3 under the 

 generic name Calathiops, but I can make out no further details from the 

 figure representing them. I have been unwilling to leave these forms un- 

 mentioned, though we shall certainly not arrive at a clear understanding 

 of them till they have been discovered in the petrified state ; for the present 

 it is useless to speculate on their affinities. There is no need therefore to 

 examine Nathorst's 4 view that they are Balanophoreae. 



1 Geinitz (3). Goppert (3), tt. 23, 24. s Goppert (31, t. 64. 4 Nathorst (5). 



