334 PALAEONTOLOGY. 



3. PLANTS. 



Andrews, E. B. Descriptions of Fossil Plants from the Coal- 

 measures of Ohio. Geological Survey of Ohio, vol. ii. part 2, 

 Palaeontology, pp. 412-426, pis. xlvi.-liii. 



Describes a group of plants found in a thin band of bituminous shale 

 a little above the base of the Coal Measures in Perry County. The 

 following new species are described and figured — Megalopteris Harttii, 

 M. minima, M. ovata, M. lata, A^xhceopteris stricta, Orthogoniopteris 

 clara, 0. Gilberti, Alethopteris Holdeni, A. Bunhuryi, A. maxima, Hy- 

 menophyllites Ballantini, Eremojjteris marginata, Lepidojpliloios Lesque- 

 reuxii, Lepidodendroyi liushvillense, Asterophyllites ? minutus, A. erecti- 

 folius, and Cardiocarpon JVeivberryi. The new genus Orthogoniopteris 

 is founded for the reception of a group of ferns allied to T<jeniopteris. 

 The plants are in some respects intermediate between Devonian and 

 Mesozoic types. H. A. N. 



Bentham, Geo. Possil Mimoseae. Addendum to Eevision of the 

 Mimosese. Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. xxx. pp. 646, 647. 



Considers there is no evidence of the presence of Inga, Mimosa, or 

 Phyllodineous Acacia in Europe in Tertiary times. Prosopis is very 

 doubtful. Acacia, Entada, and perhaps Alhizzia are certain. W. C. 



Braun, Al. Die Prage nach der Gymnospermie der Cycadeen. 

 [Gvmnospermous Character of the Cycadese.] Monatsb. k. preuss. 

 Ale. Wiss. pp. 289-375. 

 The author notices some of the fossil forms which have a bearing on 

 his investigation. 



Brongniart, Ad. Sur la structure de Tovule et de la grain e des 

 Cycadees, comparee a celle de diverses graines fossiles du terrain 

 houiUer. Compt. Bend. t. Ixxxi. pp. 305-307. 



CandoUe, Alph. de. Existe-t-il dans la vegetation actuelle des ca- 



racteres generaux et distinctifs qui permettraient de la reconnaitre 



en tons pays si elle devenait fossile ? Arch. Sci. Phys. Nat. vol. 



liv. pp. 399-405. 



The author has not been able to find any character which may be 



sai^ to be peculiar to all recent vegetation, and points out that what 



have been called geological epochs in difi'erent parts of the world may 



have been 'only local assemblages of fossils, and that we should be 



equally justified in speaking of a Europeayi epoch and of a United States 



epoch as existing at the present day. E. T. IN". 



