Reviews, — Carnithers on Fossil Botany. 181 



These remnants of the Triassic fauna, taken together with other 

 microzoa of Triassic and Rha3tic ago, pnl)lished l)y Sandberger, Rouss, 

 von Seebach, Jonosand Parker, von Schauroth, Petors, and Schwager, 

 certainly extend our view of the Marine Zoology of that early 

 Mesozoic period ; but still offer no forms of life widely different 

 from the present microzoio inhabitants of the sea. — T. R. J. 



VII. — Review of the Contributions to Fossil Botany 

 Published in Britain in 1869.* 



By William Cauruthers, F.L.S., F.G.S., of the British Museum. 



During the year the following papers have been published : — 



Baily, W. H. — Notice of Plant-remains from Beds interstratified with the Basalt 



in the County of Antrim. Quart. Joum. Geol. Soc, vol. xxv. pp. 397-362, 



pi. xiv. and xv. 

 These beds occur under similar conditions to those in the Island of Mull, and 

 contain a series of allied fossils, chiefly dicotyledonous leaves and fruits ; wood, 

 foliage, and cones of Conifeia ; and leaves of endogens. They are considered to 

 be of Miocene age. 

 Brongniart, a. — Notice of a Fossil Lycopodiaceous Fruit. (Translated from 



the "Comptes Rendus," August, 1868.) Joum. Bot. vol. vii. pp. 3-8; 



Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vol. iii. p. 74. 

 The author had obtained a complete specimen of the cone described from the 

 upper portion by Robert Brown, under the name Tiiplosporites. He shows that 

 the lower portion contains macrospores and the upper microspores, as in the recent 

 genus Selaginella. 

 Carruthers, W. — On some undescribed Coniferous Fruits from the Secondary 



Rocks of Britain. Geol. Mag. Vol. VI. pp. 1-7, pi. i. and ii. 

 Several species are described, and the views of M. Pomel regarding Brachy- 

 phylhim, etc., are examined, and his femily Lepidocarpiece shown to be based on 

 erroneous interpretation. 



On Beania, a New Geaus of Cycadean Fruit from the York- 

 shire OoUtes. Geol. Mag. Vol. VI.. pp. 97-99, pi. iv. 

 A fruit nearly allied to the cone of Z'amia^ but having the scales scattered over 

 the axis, so as to form a loose spike. 

 On the Plant-retnains from the Brazilian Coal-Beds, with 



Remarks on the Genus Flemingites. Geol.. Mag. Vol. VI. pp. 151-156, 



pi. V. and vi. 

 Three Palaeozoic species are described. From the materials from Brazil, a more 

 complete diagnosis of Flemingites is given, and its affinities examined. 

 The Cryptogamic Forests of the Coal Period, being a lecture 



before the Royal Institution of Great Britain. Proc. Roy. Inst., and Geol. 



Mag. Vol. VI. pp. 289-300 ; woodcuts. 

 An attempt to show the relation between the Palasozoic and existing vascular 

 Cryptogams. 

 On the Genus Knotria. Joum. of Bot^ vol. vii. pp. 153-15$, 



pi. xciii. 

 Showing that this genus is based upon casts of the interior of Lepidodendroid 

 stems. 

 On the Stracture of the Stems of the Aborescent Lycopodiacew 



of the Coal Measures. No. I. Lepidodendro?i selagifioides, Sternb. Month. 



Micro. Joum. vol. i. pp. 1 77-181, pi. xxvii. 



Ditto. Ditto. No. II. Ulodendron minus, Lindl. and Hutt. 



Month. Micro. Joum. vol. i. pp. 225-227, pi. xxxi. 



^ We reprint this important paper from Seemanfi^s Journal of Botany for 

 March, 1870. 



