Manchester Memoirs, Vol. xlviii. (1903), No. 3. 17 



from Ardvvick by Binney, is also a somewhat doubtful 

 identification. It is a comparatively rare British plant. 



2. Neuropteris gigantea (Stern b.) ? 

 Sedgwick Mus. Camb., Carbon. Plant Coll., No. 11 24. 

 Neu ropteris gig a n tea . 



1828. Brongniart, Hist. Veget.foss., p. 240, PI. LXIX. 

 1886. Kidston, Cat. Palceoz. Plants, Brit. Mus., p. 92. 

 1886-8. Zeiller, Bassin kouill. de Valenciennes, p. 258, 

 PI. XLIL, Fig. I. 



1900. Zeiller, Ele'm de Paleobot., p. 105, Fig. 79. 



1 901. Kidston, Proc. York Geol. and Poly t. Soc.^ Vol. 



XIV., p. 193, PI. xxviiL, Fig. 3, and PI. xxix., 

 Fig. 4. 



FILICALES. 



Pecopteris Brongniart, 1822. 



Sur la Class. Veget. foss., p. 33. 



Pecopteris Miltoni (Art.), Plate I., Fig. 4. 



Sedgwick Mus. Camb., Carbon. Plant Coll., Nos. 

 596-599. 



Pecopteris Miltoni. 



1828. Brongniart, Hist. Veget. foss., p. 333, PI. cxiv. 

 1886. Kidston, Cat. Palceoz. Plants Brit. Mus., p. 120. 

 1888. Kidston, Trans. R. Soc. Edinb., Vol. XXXIII., 



P- 374- 

 Pecopteris abbreviata. 



1828. Brongniart, Hist. Veget. foss., p. 337, PI. CXV., 



Figs. 1-4. 

 1831-7. Lindley and Hutton, Foss. Flora, PI. CLXXXIV. 

 1886-8. Zeiller, Bassin houill. de Valenciennes, p. 185, 



PL XXIV., Figs. 1-4. 



Pecopteris Miltoni, like many other Carboniferous 

 ferns, is a very variable species, and there has been much 



