126 MEDULLOSEAE [CH. 



led Sellards to regard each as a symangium rather than a single 

 sporangium. But precise information as to the structure of the 

 American fossils is not as yet available. If the association of 

 Codonotheca with Neuropteris fronds has any significance it would 

 favour a reference of these organs to the Medulloseae. In the 

 absence of anatomical data it is impossible in some cases to dis- 

 tinguish microspore-bearing organs of the Codonotheca type from 

 small seeds enclosed in a lobed cupule or even seeds with a lobed 

 integument: a case in point is the New Brunswick species 

 Pterispermostrobus bifurcatus Stopes 1 . 



A Spitzbergen, Culm, fossil recently described by Nathorst 2 

 as Codonotheca (?) pusilla is briefly referred to under the genus 

 Pterispermostrobus. 



SCHUTZIA. Geinitz. 



This generic name was instituted by Geinitz 3 for some Permian 

 fossils obtained by Bergmeister Schiitz and regarded by the author 

 of the genus as probably fertile branches of some Conifer. A more 

 complete account was published by Goeppert 4 in his 'Permian 

 Flora/ where the name Anthodiopsis Beinertiana occurs on 

 the Plates, printed before the publication of Geinitz's de- 

 scription, but in the text the specimens are referred to Schutzia 

 anomala. 



Schutzia anomala Geinitz. 



The type-species, recorded from Bohemia and Silesia, is repre- 

 sented by fertile shoots consisting of a thick main axis bearing 

 apparently two-ranked though probably spirally disposed short 

 lateral branches, each of which terminates in a receptacle with 

 numerous crowded linear-lanceolate bracts superficially resembling 

 a partially expanded inflorescence of a Composite. Goeppert 

 believed that the branches bore seeds and he refers to this species 

 a number of detached, longitudinally striated and bluntly ter- 

 minated, seeds. The same author describes other specimens from 



1 Stopes (14) p. 74. See page 66. 



2 Nathorst (14) p. 23. See page 67. 



3 Geinitz (63) p. 525, PL vi. 



4 Goeppert (65) p. 161, Pis. xxm iv. The specimens figured by Goeppert, 

 which I saw some years ago in the Breslau Museum, do not show the finer 

 characters very clearly. 



