348 Proceedings of the Eoyal Physical Society. 



Sternberg's " Versuch einer geognostisch - botanisclien 

 Darstellungen der Flora der Vorwelt " was begun in 1820, 

 and completed by Corda in 1838. 



These were the chief works on Fossil Botany, some of 

 which were only being written while the " Fossil Flora " was 

 appearing. Still the point where Lindley and Hutton's 

 " Fossil Flora " breaks down under critical examination 

 is the inaccuracy of the plates ; and this charge cannot be 

 brought, but in a slight degree, against their contemporary 

 workers. It is a point difficult to excuse, and has led to 

 much confusion. 



In regard to some of the Lindley and Hutton species, of 

 which the types are lost, if the figures of these are not more 

 accurate than many of those of which the types have been 

 preserved, possibly we may never be able to discover the 

 plant they meant to represent, even though specimens of it 

 may be well known and in our possession. 



VOLUME L 



PL i. PiNiTES Bra^ndlingi, Witham. 



Locality. — Wideopen, near Gosforth, about five miles north 

 of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. 



Horizon. — Lower ^ Coal-Measures. It occurred in the 

 Grindstone or Firestone bed, commonly known by the name 

 of '' Grindstone Post." 



Witham, Observ. upon Fossil Vegetables, 1831, p. 31, pi. iv,, figs. 1-4. 

 Pinites Brandling i, Witham, Internal Struct, of Fos. Veget., etc., 1833, 



p. 43, pi. ix., figs. 1-4; pi. x., figs. 1, 2, 3 ; pi. xvi., fig. 3. 

 Dacloxylon Brandlingii, Endlicher, Synop. Conif. foss., p. 35. 

 Araucarioxylon Brandlingi, Kraus, in Schimper, Traite d. pal eon t. 



veget., vol. ii., p. 382. 

 Gordaioxylon Brandlingii, Shenk, in Zittel, HanJb. der Palajont., Band. 



ii. Lief, iii., 1884, p. 24. 

 Cordaites Brandlingii, Goppert (Stenzel), Nachtr. z. Kennt. d. conifer 



d. palseoz. Form., p. 12, jil. i., figs. 1-4 (in Abhandl. d. Konigl. 



Preuss. Akad. d. Wissensch. zu Berlin, 1887). 



^ The term " Lower'" is not used in reference to local geological horizons, 

 but to indicate the position of the Coal Field in its relation to the other Coal 

 Fields of Britain. 



