462 W. Carruthers — Revletv of Fossil Botany. 



BiNNEY^ E. W. The Flora of the Carboniferous Strata. Part III. Palreont. Soc, 

 pp. 63-96, pi. xiii.-xviii. 

 This part is devoted to drawings and descriptions of specimens of Lcpidodcitdro7t 

 Harcoiirtii, Sigilla7-ia vascularis, and Halonia regularis. The author considers the 

 last fossil to be the roots of Lepidodcndron. 



Carruthers, W. Notes on some Fossil Plants. Geol. Mag., Vol. IX. pp. 

 49-59, PI. II. 

 The author gives — i. A restoration of a frond ol Palceoptens Hibernica, Schimper, 

 from Kiltorkan, Ireland, and, placing it in the HyinenophyllecE, investigates its 

 relation to existing forms. 2. Figures and descriptions of Hymenophylleous 

 sporangia from the Coal-measures. 3. A short notice of Osnnindites Dowkeri, 

 Can-., from the Eocene beds at Heme Bay. 4. An investigation Qi Aiitholithes of 

 the Coal-measures, in which it is shown that their fruit is Cardiocarpon, and that 

 they were probably the inflorescences of Gymnosperms. Two species are described. 

 5. Specimens of Coniferous Wood from the Coal-measures and the Wealden are 

 figured and described. And 6. Pothocites Graiitoni, Paterson, a monocotyledonous 

 inflorescence from the Coal-measures is figured. 



■ On the Tree-ferns of the Coal-measures, and their Affinities with 



Existing Forms. Abstract. Geol. Mag. Vol. IX. pp. 465-467. Journal of 

 Botany, vol. x. pp. 279-281. 

 The abstract of paper read to the British Association, in which the ferns are 

 grouped in three divisions, severally represented by Caulopteris, Tttbicaulis, and 

 Stciumatopteris, the stem of the last being of a type now extinct, though the fronds 

 and inflorescence were probably the same as those of some existing arborescent 

 FolypodiacecB. 



• Notes on Fossil Plants from Queensland, Australia. Quart. Journ. 



Geol. Soc, vol. xxviii. pp. 350-356, pi- xxvi. and xxvii. 

 Contains an account of Fossils collected by Mr. R. Daintree, belonging to 

 Devonian and Oolitic formations, with figures and descriptions of three new species. 



■ On the History, Histological Structure, and Affinities of Nejiiatophycus 



Logaiii, Carr. {Prototaxites Logani, Dawson), an Alga of Devonian Age. 

 Monthly Microscopical Journal, vol. viii., Oct., 1872, pp. 160-172, pi. xxxi. 

 and xxxii. 

 The author points out that the same fossil had been described by Dr. Dawson 

 under the two names Prototaxites Logani and Nematoxylon crassum, and had been 

 referred by him to TaxinecE from its microscopic structure. The author shows that 

 the fossil is not made up' of wood-cells, but entirely consists of cellular filaments 

 of two sizes interwoven irregularly into a felted mass, and that its affinities are 

 with the cellular Cryptogams. Reasons are given for placing it among the fila- 

 mentous Chlorosperms, and the name is changed, because of the error implied in 

 both generic names applied by Dr. Dawson, into Ne7?iaiophycus. 



On the Structure of the Stems of the Arborescent Lycopodiacese of the 



Coal-measures. — IV. on a Leaf-bearing branch of a species of Lepidodendron. 

 Monthly Microsc Journ., vol. vii. February, 1872, pp. 50-54, pi. vii. and viii. 

 The minute structure of a small stem and of the leaf bases is figured and de- 

 scribed, and the bearing the specimen has on the characters which separate Lepido- 

 phloios from Lepidodend^'on is investigated. 



Dickie, George. Notice of a Diatomaceous Deposit. Trans. Bot. Soc., Edin- 

 burgh, vol. xi. p. 394 

 An enumeration of 40 species of Diatomacem found in a peat-bog at Methlic, 

 Aberdeenshire. 



Dyer, W. T. Thiselton. On some Coniferous Remains from the Lithographic 

 Stone of Solenhofen. Geol. Mag., Vol. IX. pp. 150-153, and 193-196. 

 The author describes separate scales of a cone under the name Araiicarites 

 Hdberleinii, Dyer, and investigates the different Coniferous branches found at 

 Solenhofen, referring them to three genera — Piniies, I species; Athrotaxites, 5 

 species ; and Condylites, i species. 



. On some Fossil Wood from the Lower Eocene. Geol. Mag., Vol. IX. 



pp. 240-243. PI. VI. 

 The author describes the occurrence in this specimen of wood, of cells in the 

 interior of the ducts, and gives the received explanation of their origin. 



