—_ 
Yorkshire, p. 147, pl. 8, figs. 6 9 7; Sphen. Williamsoni, Brong. Hi 
Veg. Foss. , i i, p. 177, t. 4 fies. 6 7,a and 8. The fossil Dic rconaderanians: 
however, is quite a different species, 9 the figure i nee branches and 
pinnules are more lax; figure 1 dis an agnified.port 
In its general aspect, toi. fossil suaables the - ~ Pachypteris, to. 
which I had been inclined to refer it, but for the ae cone, of Sih 
pins manifested by some specimens 
4. Spuenopreris (?) TRIFOLIATA, Pl. 2, figs.2,2a. (No. 86 of collection. be 
Description,—Frond piplnnsig 3 pine irifoliate } pinnules elliptic, nar 
rowing at the base; rachis s raceme- 
aa mean the Mage Se coanlin eon nels and fructiferous. 
rt of the fructiferous portion enlarged, showing the capsules, 
Be oe ‘aero in the thickened paiiiile: This is a most beautiful 
ion oak species, Buren 3 in some respects to the 8. cag just 
Guiossorreris Puitiipsiz? Pl. 2, figs. 5, 5a, £3, 5c. (Nos. 69, 82, 
os 
ae: 86, of Hameo llentiow, ) Compare Glossopteris PhillipsityBrong. Hist. 
Veg. Foss., p. 225, t. ibe fig. 25 Pee epignis paucifolia, Phillips’s Geol. 
Yorkshire, p. 119, .. iii, fig, 8. 
Description.— eave linear-lanceolate, narrow, narrowing towards 
the base and apex; nervules SPliaue, dichotomous, lax, scarcely distinct, 
-subimmersed in the thick parenchym Brong. ut sup., p. 225 
The specimen fig. 5 corresponds acs with the figure of Brongniart, 
pl. 61 bis, fig. 5, both in form of the leaf and arrangement of the nervules, 
so as 1 to leave little doubt of their identity. Figure 5 is a nearly perfect leaf 
_ of this species; fig. 5a is the base of another specimen, hav ving a long foot- 
lk; fig. 5dis the base of another leaf with faietification (?); fig. “2 c nee 
meet 
wna 
age 
to thesfract af 
same e may be be some pers ic body, or the © opm of of an insect which are teen 
pee tet ano 0 the af. Whatever this may have been, it does not appear 
o have been n calcareous; and the total absence of calcareous matter in the 
vie is an objection to referring the same to flusira, or any of the para- & 
ae 
sitic corals. The ferns are abupdate in the poe = this aa a ot an ey 
of them unbroken, and evidently not far or lon 
=e 5 
; = @ 
er * Lim} 
gl been, would have given support to the fires Pree 5th OF this vod bain » 
ats ies referred this species to the Glossopteris Phillipsii, as being the 
only description and figure accessible to me, to which this fossil bears any 
near “tobe hee The geological position of that fossil ee att wel 
tained t a of the upper part o eae oolitic 46 that, relying 
offered by a single fe it as a stron= 
all the « other specimens to ye same geological period. 
cies, or. varieties of the same species, have been, 
genus oes but a close examination sho ‘ss 
