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Beports, 
REVIEW OF THE CONTRIBUTIONS TO FOSSIL BOTANY 
PUBLISHED IN BRITAIN IN 1871. 
By WıLLiam Carrutuers, F.R.S. 
The following papers have been published :— is 
Batty, W. H. Figures of Characteristic British Fossils. Part iii. 
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The author devotes this plate to representations of four plants from the 
Devonian measures of Ireland and Scotland, namely, Paleopteris hiber- 
nica, Schimp. ; Knorria Bailyana, Schimp. Cyclostigma Kiltorkense, 
Binney, E. W. Observations on the Siro of Fossil Plants found in 
the Carboniferous Strata. Part ii. _Lepidostrobus and some allied 
cones, Palæont. Soc. pp. 33-62, pl. vii.—xii. 
The author figures two cones, which, from the similarity in the struc- 
ture of their axis respectively to endron Harcourtii, With., and 
enclosing the macrospores (Binney) « or porogi Mike Te 
further on, under EquisETACEx, Lepidostrobus a us.) Under the 
name owmanites. cambrensis (gen. and nov t u^ Binney figures a 
Calamitean cone, in which several sporangia are borne ina linear series 
on each scale. It is to be regretted that the author gives no diagnostic 
characters for the new genus and the many new species he proposes in 
this important memoir. 
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CanRUTHERS, W. On some supposed keines Fossils. Quart. 
Journ ps Soc. vade xxvii. pp. 443—448, pl. x 
The author describes so me physical impressions id zoological struc- 
sed 
nien. have been erroneously supposed to belong to the vegetable 
ngdom. 
On two Undescribed Coniferous Fruits from the Se- 
a Rocks of Britain. Geol. Mag. vol. viii. pp. 540-544, 
n» DET describes the cone of a second s species of Pine associated - 
with a second species of Sequoia from the Gault, and shows that the type 
of Pine associated with the Wellingtonias of the Gault was the same as 
that now found with these trees in Western North America. 
On the History and Affinities of the British Conifere. 
Abstract. Brit. Ass. Reports, 40th Meeting, p. 71. 
The author traces the a development, and affinities of the 
fossil and recent Conifers of Britai 
On the Sporangia _ from the Coal Measures. 
— Abstract. «Brit. Ass. Reports, 4 d id 
The spo: | are referred to diosa e Ferns. 
