Mr B. Kidston on a New Species of Schutzia. 129 



arranged in a few short rows. These often appear blunt, but 

 Geinitz thinks this bluntness may arise through a bending of 

 their apices. 



Schutzia Bennieana teaches nothing as regards internal 

 structure ; but in aS^. anomala, Geinitz thought he could 

 discover, "at the base of the inner side of the fruit- scales, 

 the appearance on each side of a longitudinal depression, 

 which corresponded to the two seeds in the fruit-scales of 

 Coniferae." 



In addition to the plates of Schutzia given by Goppert, 

 he also figured another fossil, which he named Dictyothalamus 

 Schrollianus} 



This he thought might belong to Schutzia anomala, the 

 latter being the female, the former the male plant. These 

 occurred together and often on the same slab. 



The central part of Dictyothalamus is composed of small 

 elongated roundish bodies, which Goppert thought were the 

 seeds. 



He believed these fossils might belong to the Nceggerathice, 

 but Geinitz regarded them as coniferous. 



As there occurred with the specimens Noeggerathia (Cor- 

 daites) and Coniferae of different genera, as Walchia piniformis 

 (SchL, sp.), and Ullmannia, no light is thrown on the affinities 

 of Schutzia by the vegetable remains with which it was 

 associated. 



But that it does not belong to Walchia or Ullmannia is 

 pretty certain, as the fruits of both these plants are now well 

 known.2 



Schimper unites Dictyothalamus Schrollianus (Gopp.) with 



1 Goppert, Die fos. Flora d. perm. Formation, p. 164, pi. xxiv., figs. 4 and 

 6, pi. XXV., figs. 1-4. 



2 Goppert figures and describes what lie believes to be the fruit and the 

 male flowers of Walchia piniformis, in "Die fos. Flora d. perm. Form.," p. 

 239, pi. xlix., — the cones, figs. 1-10 ; the male flowers, figs. 11-14. See also 

 Weiss, Flora d. jiing. Stk. u. d. Rothl., p. 179, pi. xvii., fig. 1. The fruit 

 of Ullmannia was described as far back as 1828 by H. Bronn, in Leonhard's 

 "Zeitchrift fiir Mineral. ," Band ii., p. 509, pi. iv., under the name of Cupressus 

 Ullmanni. Goppert also figures, in his " Permian Flora," similar cone-like 

 fruits (pi. xlv. , figs. 24, 25). 



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