128 Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society. 



Eemar'ks. — The specimen on which the above description 

 is based, shows the upper portion of a fructification, but its 

 lower part is broken over, so that its original length cannot 

 now be determined. The part which has been preserved is 

 Z-^Q inches long. 



Only three fruits are attached to the stem, the terminal one 

 and two immediately beneath it. 



Below these are seen the scars from which four others have 

 fallen. The spiral arrangement of the fruits is clearly shown 

 by the position of those which still remain, that on the right 

 being placed at about a third of the circumference of the 

 stem distant from the one to the left hand. 



The bracts of the little cones are about half an inch long, 

 narrow, and terminating in a sharp point, and they appear to 

 have had a central keel. From the compressed state of the 

 fossil it is impossible to make out their arrangement clearly, 

 but they were probably placed in a few spirals. 



The stalks to which they are attached are short, being 

 barely, in the longest and lowest example, the fifth of an inch 

 long. The main axis is irregularly striated longitudinally. 



Affinities. — This plant is closely related to Schutzia anomala 

 (Geinitz),^ from the Eothliegenden of Ottendorf, near Braunau, 

 Bohemia; 2 but the differences between the Permian and 

 the Scotch plant are such as to necessitate a specific 

 designation. 



They agree in the spiral arrangement of the little cones, in 

 their being short-stalked, and in the furrowed stem, as also in 

 the angle made by the pedicels and the stem. 



The form of the fruit is, however, essentially distinct. 



In Schutzia anomala they are globular, and consist of 

 numerous and much shorter keeled scales, which are similarly 



^ Geinitz, Neues Jahrbuch, 1863, "Ueberzwei neiie dyadische Pflanzen," 

 p. 525, pi. vi., figs. 1, 2, 3. 



^ Goppert also notes the occurrence of this plant at Neurode, Silesia (see 

 Die foss. Flora der permischen Formation, pi. xxiii., figs. 1-6, pi. xxiv., 

 figs. 1, 2, 3, 5, 1864-65). The plates for this work were prepared before the 

 publication of the paper by Geinitz, though not issued till after ; hence the 

 name which Goppert had proposed for this plant {Anthodiopsis Beinertina) 

 appears on his plates ; Schutzia anomala (Gein. ) is used in his text. See also 

 Goppert, Foss. Flora d. Uebergangsgebirges, p. 214 (1852). 



