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LONCHOPTERIS, Brongniart, 1828. 

 Prodrome d'une Histoire des Vegetaux Fossiles, p. 59. 

 Lonchopteris Bricii, Brongniart. 



Lonchopteris Bricii. 



Brongniart, Prodrome, p. 60. 



Hist. d. Veget. Foss. p. 368, pi. cxxxi. figs. 2, 3. 



Bronn, Index Palseont. p. 667. 



Goppert, Gatt. d. Foss. Pflanzen, lief, v., vi. p. 117, pi. xvii. figs. 1, 2. 

 Eenault, Cours d. Botan. Foss. 1883, p. 166. 

 Sternberg, Vers. ii. p. 167. 

 Zeiller, Veget. Foss. du Terr. Houil. p. 79 (excl. syn. and figure). 



Bull. Soc. Geol. France, 3 e ser. vol. xii. p. 199. 

 Lonchopteris Roehlii. 



Andrae, Vorwelt. Pflanzen, p. 5, pi. i., ii. figs. 2, 3, 1865. 



Boulay, Terr. Houil. du Nord de la France, p. 36. 



Eoehl, Foss. Flora d. Steink. Form. Westph. p. 69, pi. xii. fig. 2, and 



pi. xix. 



Schimper, Traite d. Paleont. Veget. vol. i. p. 621. 

 Woodwardites (?} Robertsi. 

 Morris, Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. xv. p. 82, figs. 1, 2, 1859. 



Remarks. Most writers on Fossil Botany have united Lonchopteris Bricii, 

 Brongt., with Lonchopteris rugosa, Brongt. Brongniart's figures of these two 

 ferns favour this view ; but Zeiller, who has carefully examined the types, finds 

 Lonchopteris Bricii, Brongt., and Lonchopteris rugosa, Brongt., to be distinct 

 species, and that Andrae's Lonchopteris Roehli is Brongniart's L^ Bricii* 



The fern described as Lonchopteris Roehli, by Andrae in 1865, is evidently 

 similar to that described by Morris in 1859 as Lonchopteris ( Woodwardites) 

 Robertsi. As Andrae does not refer to Morris's plant, possibly he was not 

 aware of its existence. Professor Morris, in his description of Lonchopteris 

 Robertsi, mentions that the pinnules are without a midrib, but he has pro- 

 bably been misled in this point through the imperfect preservation of his 

 specimens, as the presence of a midrib is shown in some fragments in the 

 Collection, evidently belonging to his species, These fragments are from the 

 same neighbourhood as that from which Prof. Morris's Woodwardites (?) 

 Robertsi was collected. Lonchopteris Bricii being the oldest name for this 

 fern, it is adopted here. 



Horizon. Coal Measures. 



Locality. British. Worcestershire : Forest of Wyre. 



Lonchopteris rugosa, Brongniart. 



Lonchopteris rugosa. 



Andrae, Vorwelt. Pflanzen, p. 9, pi. iii. figs. 2, 3. 



Neues Jahrbuch, 1864, p. 171. 

 Boulay, Terr. Houil. du Nord de la France, p. 35. 

 Brongniart, Prodrome, p. 60. 



Hist. d. Veget. Foss. p. 368, pi. cxxxi. fig. 1. 



Bron, Index Palaeont. p. 668. 

 Feistmantel, Steinkf. u. Perm-Ablager. p. 87. 



Vers. d. Bohm. Kohlenab. p. 296, pi. Ixvii. figs. 7, 8. 



Schimper, Traite d. Paleont. Veget. vol. i. p. 621. 

 Sternberg, Vers. ii. p. 167. 

 Eoehl, Foss. Flora d. Steink. Form. Westph. p. 68, pi. xvi. fig. 4, pi. xxix. 



figs. 1-7. 

 Weiss, Foss. Flora d. Jung. Steink. u. d. Eothl. p. 99. 



* Bull. Soc. Geol. France, 3 ser. vol. xii. p. 199. 



