80 Prof. F. Schmitz on the 
The small fossils which I previously described and placed 
in the genus Schutzia are different from the present example, 
and their real claim to this genus may perhaps be open to 
question*. 
Schutzia Bennieana comes so near the Permian species, 
that it is only after very careful consideration I have given 
it a specific designation f. 
It gives me pleasure to name this plant after Mr. J. Bennie, 
to whom I owe so much for kind assistance in many points 
connected with my study of fossil botany. 
Position and Locality.—In bituminous shale, water of 
Leith, opposite Kate’s Mill, Midlothian ; Calciferous Sandstone 
series. Collected by Mr. James Bennie. 
1X.—On the Fertilization of the Floride. 
By Prof. F. Scumirz. 
[Concluded from page 29.] _ 
V. 
THE preceding description has by no means exhausted all 
the modifications presented by the process of fertilization and 
fructification in the Floridez, as is shown by the fact that 
in almost every fresh genus that I investigated I detected 
new modifications of the previously observed processes. It is 
also sufficiently demonstrated by Bornet’s statements with 
regard to Spyridia, Callymenia, Crouania, and other genera 
which I have hitherto been unable to examine. But the 
most important modifications of these processes have probably 
been shown in the foregoing in the described genera, which 
belong to the most different families of the Floridez. 
From this description it appears, however, that throughout, 
in the fertilization of the Flovidez a material connexion exists 
between the male cell, the spermatium, and the cell which is 
developed into the sporigenous tissue of the cystocarp (the 
“nucleus” of systematic botany). A fertilizing influence of. 
1867, p. 288, pl. iil. fig. 4), is an analogous fruit, but specifically distinct 
(Traité d. Paléont. Végét, vol. 11. p. 358). 
