312 CONTRIBUTIONS TO FOSSIL BOTANY PUBLISHED IN 1872. 
Maxrat, F. P. On the Fossil Ferns in the Ravenshead Collections. 
Proceedings Liverpool Geol. Soc. 1872, pp. 4-16, pl. 1-13. 
The author enumerates 62 species, 9 of which he considers unde- 
scribed, and he gives them names. The figures and descriptions are 
scarcely sufficient for independent investigators to determine the 
characters ieliieh distinguish them from already described species. 
Pxacu, C. W. On Fossil Plants from the Coal-fields of Slamannan, 
Falkirk, preside, Tillicoultry, &. Abstract. Trans, Edin. 
os Soc., vol, xi 
ne meration of some of the more remarkable fossils the author 
éallectod 4 in the — specified. 
ne of Hlemingites gracilis attached ie its stem. 
Abst: . Bot. Soc., vol. xi. es hake 
The ubhos describes the specimens he had fou un 
Wittuamson, W. C. On the Structure of the Dictyoxylons eS pre: 
Sothern Abstract. Report Brit. Assoc. 1871, pp. 1 
Pansabe are rconiegs described—Dictyoxylon Oldhamium, D. 
deainans; and D. Griev 
On the Orgiation of the Fossil Plants of the Coal- 
meio ph Part I. ee 1res. Phil. Trans., vol. clxi., pp. 
On the i of the Fossil ead “of the Coal- 
measures. Part Il. Lycoropracem: Lepidodendra and Sigill- 
arié. Phil. cise vol. clxii., pp. 197-240, pl. xxiv.-xxxi. 
The author figures and. describes in detail sections of Lepidoden- 
dron, Ula ‘ioe dron, Sets Diploxylon, and Sigillaria. He considers 
Anabathra of Witham to be the same as Diploxylon, and among the 
ro are Lpapetsess 
Notice of ssi Researches on the Fossil Plants of the 
nee iat ina — to Dr. Sharpey, Sec. R.S. Proc 
Roy. vol. xx., pp. 9 
The alhien: ones the pro sil of his investigations into the 
nature of a Lepidodendroid plant and its fruit from Burntisland, and 
of an ae “i Lancashire, which he proposes to submit 
to the Society sp 
On a > Orsini of oe! Tieng Plants of the~ Coal- 
measures. Part Bg Abstract.. Proc. Roy. 
Soc., vol. xx. aa 
A plant from »Barathland—Lapidopiin del diees Williamson— 
is described gth, and reasons are n for uniting the genera 
Diploxylon, Tate Lannatophibice. nt Eoheia. 
