312 . Miscellaneous. 



as the specific name de Promenteli is preoccupied in the latter genus, 

 he proposed to substitute the name Leptopliyllia anglica. Tomes, for 

 Turhinoseris de Fi-omenteli, Duncan. A new species, probably of 

 SmilotrocJius, from the Gault of Folkestone, and a new Isastrcea from 

 Atherfield were described, and notes added on the occurrence in 

 British localities of Barysmilia tuberosa, Eeuss, B. Cordieri, M.-Edw. 

 and Haime, Pleurosmilia neocomiensis, E. de Erom., of a small form 

 of Astroccenia, and of Isastrcea Reussiana, M.-Edw. and Haime 

 (= CflojyhyUia crispa, Reuss). The occurrence of Beaumontia 

 Egertoni^ derived from the Carboniferous Limestone, in the Upper 

 Greensand of Cambridge, was also recorded. 



3. " On the Fossil Flora of Sagor in Carniola." By Constantin, 

 Baron von Ettingshausen, F.C.G.S. 



The author in this paper gave the principal results of his exami- 

 nation of the fossil flora of Sagor, consisting of 170 genera and 

 387 species, of which a list was appended. The plants were ob- 

 tained from 14 different localities, some of the most important species 

 from each of which were mentioned ; in one of these localities 

 the flora underlying the brown coal of the district belonged to the 

 uppermost Eocene, whilst the remaining stations were assigned to 

 the lowest stage of the Miocene system. The great diversity of the 

 fossil plants showed that the Tertiary flora of this and other localities 

 must be considered the origin of all the living floras of the globe ; 

 for in the fossil-flora of Sagor are found plants representative of 

 forms now found in Australia, North America and Mexico, Cali- 

 fornia, Chili, India and the East Indian islands, Europe, Africa, 

 Norfolk Island, and New Zealand. Examples of all these were 

 cited. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



On the Brisingidce of the Expedition of the ' Talisman.' 

 By M. Edmond Pekrieb. 

 The family Brisingidse, which I established in 1875 in my 

 revision of the Stellerida, at first contained only the genus Brisinga, 

 and appeared to be completely isolated in the class Stellerida. In 

 his fine memoir on Brisinga coronata and endecacnemos, Ossian Sars 

 approximated these remarkable animals to Solaster ; but the form 

 of their pedieellariae demonstrated, on the contrary, very clearly that 

 they must be referred to the Asteriadse, and from that time I thought 

 that it was advisable to group in the family Brisingidse all the aberrant 

 AsteriadEe which had only two rows of ambulacral tubes, that is to 

 say Pedicellaster and Labidiaster. This is also the^ conclusion to 

 which Dr. Yiguier has been led in his ' Anatomie comparee du 

 squelette des Stellerides '*. 



This conclusion has since been fully confirmed by the study which 

 Dr. Stiider and myself have been able to make of the LaUdiasteres 

 of the coast of Patagonia : but, further, the genera Hymenodiscus, 



♦ These de doctorat, 1879, p. 119. 



