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LYCOPODIALES 



Of the fossils which have been referred to a near affinity with 

 Lycopodium under the name Lycopodites, many have been shown to find 



FIG. 147. 



Lycopodites Stockii, Kidst. i=specimen, natural size; a-f, sporangia; g, sporophyll. 

 2 = sporophyll enlarged. 4 = small portion of stem, enlarged, showing verticillate leaf- 

 bases. (After Kidston.) 



their true place elsewhere. 1 But some at least of them show distinct 

 Lycopodinous characters : for instance, Lycopodites Stockii, Kidston, from 

 the calciferous sandstone of Dumfriesshire. In habit it is like Lycopodium 



1 Kidston, Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc., Glasgow, vol. vi., p. 32. 



