38 CATALOGUE OF FOSSIL PLANTS 



Remarks. — Asterophyllites juhata seems to have been figured 

 by the authors of the "Fossil Flora" only, and to have been a 

 puzzle to many. "It looks," say these authors, "more like a 

 gigantic Equisetum than anything modern we are acquainted 

 with ;" and they rightly consider it to be a stem with " a mul- 

 titude of extremely fine thread-like processes {rootlets), which it 

 is to be presumed were leaves." Schimper, followed by Kidston, 

 place it in the genus Calamocladus, a very convenient receptacle 

 for "rami et ramuli foliosV of Calamites and other plants; arid 

 both these authors refer Asterophyllites comosa et juhata, L. etH., 

 to the Bruclcmannia longifolia et tenuifolia, Sternberg, = Astero- 

 phyllites longifolia, Brongt. It would have saved me some 

 labour if I could have adopted this opinion, but with numerous 

 specimens before me I could not ; and have been obliged to con- 

 sider Sternberg's two last-mentioned species as the foliage of 

 E. gigantea, and Aster, jubata, L. et H., as the basal part of a 

 narrow-jointed, finely striated stem, covered with numerous very 

 long rootlets, which is, I think, the external appearance of 

 specimens with the cortex preserved of C. (?) Cistii. At any 

 rate, Aster, jubata, L. et H., is a stem and not a branch, and it 

 is very finely striated, and agrees better with C. Cistii, Brongt., 

 of which decorticated specimens only are known, than with any 

 other organism found in this Coal-field. 



To this species also is referred the branching stem and foliage 

 figured in the "Illustrated Fossil Plants," pi. 61. The im- 

 pression is very indistinct, but so far as its characters can be 

 made out it agrees with the other examples referred to this 

 species. 



Calamites Suckowii, Brongniart. 



Type — Calamites Suckowii, Brongt., Hist. Yeg. Foss., 



pi. 14, f. 6; pi. 15, f. 1; 

 pi. 16, f. 1, 2. 



Stem. 



Calamites Suclowii, Schimp., TraitePal.Veg.,pl.l8,f.l. 



,, (base of stem) L. etH., Foss. Floi'a, pi. 96. 



,, ,, Lesq., CoalFlor.Penn., pi. l,f.4. 



,, nodosus, Brongt., Hist. Yeg. Foss., pi. 23, 



f. 2, 3, 4. 



