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confirmative of the views I previously stated and partly 

 correcting errors into which I had fallen. 



I. Lepidodcndron Vcltheimianum, Sternb. 



A few months ago I received for examination from tlie 

 Geological Survey of England an impression of Lepidoden- 

 dron Veltheimianum, collected by Mr Ehodes, one of their 

 fossil collectors, from the Lower Carboniferous of Lumby 

 Law Kail way- cutting, a quarter of a mile north of Edling- 

 ham Church, Northumberland. It was contained in an 

 iron-stained sandstone, and showed on the surface of the 

 impression the leaf-scars and one of the large cone-scars. 

 Attached to this latter is the basal portion of the appen- 

 dicular organ, which had been imbedded in the matrix, and 

 from the fortunate maimer in which the block containing 

 the specimen has split, one side of the appendicular organ 

 is exposed. It is directed upwards and therefore similar in 

 position to that of all the other specimens of the plant, 

 which have shown the appendicular organ in situ. Owing 

 to the rough nature of the matrix the minute structural 

 points of this organ are not shown ; but the impression of 

 the fossil is sufficiently well preserved to enable a satis- 

 factory identification of the species to be made, and, further, 

 to confirm the opinion, that the organ in question is a 

 cone. 



My thanks are due to Dr A. Geikie for the opportunity 

 of examining this fossil, which is contained in the collection 

 of the Geological Survey of England. 



I was previously of opinion that L. Veltheimianum, in 

 addition to bearing lateral cones, which produced the large 

 Ulodendroid scars, might also have produced terminal 

 cones. Continued investigations have, however, led me to 

 relinquish this view, as the cones, which I formerly 

 believed to be the terminal cones of L. Veltheimianum, I 

 have now seen attached to their parent branches, slio wing- 

 that they belong to an altogether distinct and, I believe, an 

 undescribed species. 



Note. — I wish to correct an error in the description of the 



