310 CONTRIBUTIONS TO FOSSIL BOTANY PUBLISHED IN 1872, 
nius Zeidleri, Corda; the author records the discovery of specimens of 
Zygopteris, and his conviction that ye ) oe elegans is 
‘* merely the rachis of a fern, or a plant to 
The Flora of the Carboniferous obiaai: ee III. Paleont. 
Vill 
‘ Soc., pp. 63-96, pl. xiii.-x 
This part is devoted to drawings and descriptions of dsp s of 
Lepidodendron Harcourtii, Sigillaria vascularis, and Halon Wi trol 
The author considers the last fossil to be the roots of Leplaiidairon ron 
Carruruzrs, W. Notes on some Fossil Plants. Geol. Mag., oe 
1x. cs pp. 49-56, pl. ii 
The author gives—l. A restoration of a frond of Palaopteris 
Hiberiea, Seiietpa, from Kiltorkan, Ireland, and placing it in the 
Hymenophyliea, investigates its relation to existing forms. 2. Figures 
aad bai of Hymenophylleous sporangia from the Coal-mea- 
- A short notice of Osmundites Dowkeri, Carr., from the 
Eocene beds at Herne Bay. 4, An investigation of ’Antholithes of the 
oal-measures, in which it is shown that their fruit is Cardiocarpon, 
and that they were probably the inflorescences of G mnosper ms. 
Two species are described. 5. Specimens of Coniferous — from 
the Coal-measures and the Wealden are figured and described. And 
6. Pothocites Grantoni, Paterson, a monocotyledonous inflorescence 
e Coal-measures, is ed. 
On the Tree-ferns of the Coal-measures, and their Affinities 
with existing Forms. Abstract. Geol. Mag., vol. ix., pp. 
9-281. 
The abstract of paper read to the Briti , 10 
the Ferns are gro ed i ee divisions, severally represented by 
Caulopteris, Tubicaulis, and Stemmatopteris, the s f s 
being of a type now extinct, t though the fronds and inflorescence were 
probably the same as those of some existing arborescent Polypodiacee. 
——— Notes on Fossil Plants from Queensland, Australia. 
Saige Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. xxviii., pp. 350-356, pl. xxvi. 
+ 
Co: oer an account of Fossils collected by Mr. R. Daintree, be- 
longing to Devonian and Oolitic formations, with Agures and descrip- 
tions of ap new species, 
the History, Histological Structure, and Affinities of 
Nonaeoloon aoe Carr. (Prototaxites Logani, Dawson), 
= of nga n Age. Monthly Microsopical J Journal, 
, 1873, pp. 160-172, pl. xxx 
ctw 
cells, but entirely consists of cellular filaments of two sizes inter- 
woven irregularly into a felted mass, and that its affinities are with 
the cellular 
th 
e filamentous Chlorosperms, and 
the 
the error implied in both 
into Nematophycus. generic names applied by Dr. Dawson, 
