FOSSIL PLANTS. 427 



This extremely fine and delicate Lycopodites may be compared to the upper 

 branches of Lepidodendron selaginoidcs, Ste.rnb., as figured by LI. and Hutt., 

 vol. 1, tab. 12; and also to Lycopodites Sfichlerianus, Gopp., Silurian, p 170 

 tab. 25. In our species the stem is longer, more slender ; the leaves narrower 

 and proportionally longer, and the ramification different. 



On the roof shales of the coal at Morris. 



GENUS SCHUTZIA, Goppert, Permian Flora, p. 161. 



Stems either single or branching, bearing on short alternate pedicels small 

 cones or strobiles of an ovate truncate form, a compound of imbricate, broadly 

 linear pointed scales, united at the base. 



SCHUTZIA BRACTEATA, Sp. nov. 



PL xxi, fig. 6 to 9. 



STEM proportionally thick, smooth, bearing alternate short 

 pediceled cones or strobiles, about half an inch long, enlarged 

 ovate from a narrow base, truncate at the top, slightly turned 

 upwards, placed at the axil of a narrow linear bractlet, about 

 one inch long and curved upwards. The cone is a compound 

 of lanceolate pointed, concave scales, placed in spiral, closely 

 imbricated and pressed upon one another, fig. 7 and 8; covering 

 a transparent, yellowish membrane, formed of small, elongated, 

 equilateral meshes : fig. 9, which enclose or support small 

 granules of opaque, brown matter. These granules, scarcely 

 the one-hundreth part of a millimeter in diameter, are of a 

 roundish, irregular, polygonal form, agglomerated and separa- 

 ting with difficulty. Their size and irregularity of form pre- 

 vent considering them as spores ; they look rather like grains 

 of pollen. 



From the great difference in the form of the buds born on the stem, which 

 cannot be accounted for, I think, by difference in maturity, it would appear as 

 if the scape of this plant was bearing monoacious flowers, the ones in strobiles 

 bearing pollen, the other fertile buds. These, as seen in a, fig. 6, have the 

 appearance of an inflated receptacle, either naked or bordered at its top by foli- 

 aceous, narrow divisions. Two specimens of this plant have been found in the 



