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HOSTIMELLA AND APHYLLOPTERIS 



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Distribution. Lower Devonian, Norway (Roragen); Middle 

 Devonian, Bohemia. 



The examples of this genus are still entirely obscure objects. 

 They appear to stand nearest to Psilophyton. 



Fig. 23. Hostimella hostimensis, P. & B. var. rhodeae- 

 formis,P. & B., from the Middle Devonian of Bohemia. 

 (About half nat. size.) After Potonie and Bernard 

 (1904). 



APHYLLOPTERIS. 



Aphyllopteris, Nathorst, 1915 = ? Pteridorachis, Nathorst, 

 1902. This genus, as emended by Halle 1 , consists of stout rachis- 

 like branch systems, without emergences, leaves or fructifica- 

 tions, and not dichotomously branched. As used originally by 

 Nathorst, it included more slender dichotomously branched types 

 such as Hostimella. 



Distribution. Lower Devonian, Norway (Roragen); Middle 

 Devonian, Western Norway; Upper Devonian, Bear Island and 

 other countries. 



. J Halle (1916), p. 24. 



