28 YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS tJNION. 



Remarks. — This plant has as yet only been found in 

 a very fragmentary state, rarely more than single verticils 

 of leaves having been met with. 



FILICACEiE. 



SPHENOPTERIS Brongniart. 

 Sphenopteris obtusiloba Brongt. 



Splwiopteris obtusiloba Bgt., Hist. d. veget. foss., p. 204, pi. 



liii, fig. 2.* 

 Sphenopteris irregularis Sternb., Vers, ii, fasc. 5, 6, pi. ix, 



fig- 7. 

 Sphenopteris latifolia L. & H. (not Bgt.)., Fossil Flora, vol. 



iii, pi. clxxviii. 

 Middle Coal Measures. 



Hor. — Haigh Moor Coal. Loc. — Featherstone, near Ponte- 



fract (Gelder). 

 Hor. — Barnsley Thick Coal. Loc. — East Gawber Colliery, 

 near Barnsley (Hemingway). 

 Sphenopteris trifoliolata Artis sp. 



Sphenopteris trifoliolata Brongt., Prodr., p. 5 1. Kidston, Trans. 



Roy. Soc. Edin., vol. xxxv, pp. 403 — 405. 

 Filicites trifoliolata Artis, Antedil. Phyt., pi. xi. 

 Middle Coal Measures. 



Hor. — Statiley Main Coal. Loc. — Wakefield (Hemingway). 

 Hor. — Barnsley Thick Coal. Locs.- — WooUey Colliery, 

 Darton, near Barnsley (Hemingway). East Gawber 

 Colliery, near Barnsley (Hemingway). Monckton 

 Colliery, near Barnsley (Hemingway). Elsecar, near 

 Barnsley (Artis). 



Remark. — The type of the species came from Elsecar. 

 Sphenopteris latifolia Brongt. 



Sphenopteris latifolia Brongt., Hist. d. veget. foss.. p. 205, 



pi. Ivii, figs. I — 4 (excl. syn.). 

 Mariopteris latifolia Zeiller, Flore foss. d. bassin houil. d. 

 Valen., p. 161, pi. xvii, figs, i, 2 ; pi. xviii, fig. i. 



Geol. Trans. Y.N.U., iSSS (pub. 1S90). 



