﻿Notices of Memoirs — Notes on Fossil Plants. 32-3 



conglomerates, at the base of tlie variegated sandstones with 

 MijopJwria costata, being a part of the lower horizon of the 

 Fiinflvirchen shelly limestones. Nearly one-half of these species 

 are found in the Copper-shales of the Saxon and Franconian 

 " Zechstein." Ullmannia Geinitzi and its congener U. Braimi are 

 characteristic Dyasic (Permian) forms. The specimens of Voltzia 

 JIungarica, Hr., are identical with Palissya Brauni in the form and 

 the distichous arrangement of their leaves, and in the form of their 

 branches, and would find a better place in this genus ; the forms 

 generally ranked among Voltzia having no median nerve, and the 

 arrangement of their leaves being polystichous. The scales of 

 strobili, possibly not connected with the branches found here, stand 

 very near those of Voltzia. 



5. On the Upper Tertiary Plants^ of Sicikj. — By Dr. H. Th. Geylee. 

 (Imp. Geol. Instit. Vienna, Meeting of March 6, 1877.) 



These plants, together with fossil Insects, have only been found 

 in the lacustrine gypsum and sulphur-bearing beds of the hill range 

 of Cannatone, north of Kacalmuto and Grotte, in the Province of 

 Girgenti. The species, denoting an earliest Pliocene origin, repre- 

 sent the genera Xylomites, Furcellaria, Algacites (?), Pimis, Phrag- 

 mites, Poacites, Potamogeton, Palmacites, Myrica, Alniis, Qiierciis, 

 Cinnamomum, Laurus (?), Diosjnjros (?)> Celamstrus (?), Berchemia, 

 Jaglans, CcBsaJpinia (?), Bohinia (?), and Acacia (?). Several of 

 them are identical with those from the Tertiaries of CEningen. 



6. On the Arctic Fossil Plants. By D. Stur. 

 (Imp. Geol. Instit. Vienna, Meeting of March 6th, 1877.) 



Professor Oswald Heer has lately published the fourth volume of 

 his classic " Flora fossilis arctica," in which he treats of the follow- 

 ing localities : — 



A. Egbert Valley, Eesearch Bay, 77'^ 33' N. Lat., explored by 

 Prof. Nordenskiold. The species collected there are — Sphenopteris 

 frigida (compare Sph. hifida, Lindl.), Sph. geniciilata, Germ. (^Sph. 

 snh-geniculata Stur (from the '•'Culm "),^fiexibilis, Heer, Sph. distans, 

 Stb. (an exclusively " Culmian" form), Adiantites concinnus, Goepp. 

 {Ad. tenuifolius, Goepp., from the " Culm "), Ad. bellidulns, Heer 

 (compare Ad. oblong if olius, Goepp., "Culm"), Staphylopteris, sp. 

 (Indusia only found in the "Culm"'), Lycopodites filiformis, Heer, 

 Lepidodendron Sternbergi, Brong. {Lep.Veltheimianum, St., Gein.), Lep. 

 selaginoides, St., Lepido pliyllum caricinum, Heer, Stigmaria Lindleyana, 

 Heer {Stigm. incequaiis, Goepp.), Sphenophylliim longifolium (?), 

 Germ., Sphenoph, bifidum. Heer, Sphenoph. subtile (compare Sphenoph. 

 tenerrimum, Ett. sp., " Culm "), Bhynchogonimn crassirostre Heer, Ith. 

 costatum, Heer, Bh. macilentum, Heer, Ph. globosum, Heer, Cordaites 

 jyahncefonnis (Goepp.), Cor d.borassif olius {8t.), C. principalis ((js:evxn..) , 

 Walchia linearifolia, Goepp. (compare W. antecedens, Stur), Sama- 

 ropsis Spitzbergensis, Heer, and Carpolithes nitidulus, Ilaer. According 

 to Professor Heer, this Flora is Middle Carboniferous ; the Calamites, 

 Annidarice, Aster ophylUtes, Neuropteridce and Pecopteridce, wanting in 

 the above list of species, may have been overlooked by the collector. 



