78 Mr. R. Kidston on a new Spectres of Schutzia. 
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 
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 S. anomala, Geinitz thought he could dis- 
cover, “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 Coniferee.” 
In addition to the plates of Schutzia given by Géppert, 
he also figured another fossil, which he named Dictyothala- 
mus 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 Géppert thought were the 
seeds. 
He believed these fossils might belong to the Neggerathie, 
but Geinitz regarded them as coniferous. 
As there occurred with the specimens Neggerathia (Cor- 
dattes) and Coniferse of different genera, as Walchia pini- 
formis, Schl., sp., and Ulimannia, 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 
knownt. 
Schimper unites Dictyothalamus Schrollianus, Gopp., with 
Schutzia anomala, Geimitz}, and regards the Schutzia as 
the female, and the Dictyothalamus as the male plant. The 
* Goppert, Die fos. Flora d. perm. Formation, p. 164, pl. xxiv. figs, 4 & 
6, pl. xxv. figs. 1-4. f 
+ Goppert figures and describes what he believes to be the fruit and 
male flowers of Walchia piniformis, in Die fos. Flora d. perm. Form, 
p- 239, pl. xlix.—the cones, figs. 1-10; the male flowers, figs. 11-14. See 
also Weiss, Flora d. jiing. Stk. u. d. Rothl. p. 179, pl. xvii. fig. 1. The 
fruit of Ulimaniia was described as far back as 1828 by H. Bronn, in 
Leonhard’s Zeitschrift fiir Mineral. Band ii. p. 509, pl. iv., under the name 
of Cupressus Ullmanni. _Goppert also figures, in his Permian Flora 
similar cone-like fruits (pl. xlv. figs. 24, 25). } 
{ Schimper, Traité d, Paléont, Végét. vol. ii. p, 368, 
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