Mr. R. Kidston on a new Species of Schutzia. va 
VIII.—On a new Species of Schutzia from the Calczferous 
Sandstones of Scotland. By Roserr Kipsron, F.G.8.* 
[Plate V. fig. 2.] 
Schutzia Bennieana, n. s., Kidst. 
Specific character.—F ruit campanulate, composed of linear 
lanceolate bracts; pedicels of fruits short and placed spirally 
on the axis. 
Remarks.—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 
3,3, 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. 
A ffinities—This plant is closely related to Schutzia ano- 
mala, Geinitz t, from the Rothliegenden of Ottendorf, near 
Braunau, Bohemia}; but the differences between the Permian 
and the Scotch plant are such as to necessitate a specific 
designation. 
* Read before the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh, December 19, 
1883. 
+ Geinitz, Neues Jahrbuch, 1863, “‘ Ueber zwei neue dyadische Pflan- 
zen,” p. 526, pl. vi. figs. 1, 2, 3. 
{ Goppert also notes the occurrence of this plant at Neurode, Silesia, 
see ‘ Die foss. Flora der permischen Formation,’ pl. xxiii. figs. 1-6, pl. xxiv. 
figs. 1, 2, 3, 5 (1864-5). The plates for this work were prepared before 
the publication of the paper by Geinitz, though not issued till after ; hence 
the name which Géppert had proposed for this plant (Anthodopsis 
Beinertina) appears on his plates; Schutzia anomala, Gein., is used in his 
text. See also Géppert, Fos. Flora d. Uebergangsgebirges, p. 214, 
(1852). 
