52 CATALOGUE OP FOSSIL PLANTS 



78. (Root and Rootlets, Lebour, 111. Foss. Pits., pi. 10). Type. 



Part of a root, sending off numerous rootlets on one side. 

 Portion of Cordaites leaf on same slab. 



Loc. — Shale above the Low-Main Seam, Felling. (H. C. 527). 



Remarks. — Under this heading are placed the roots with small 

 rootlets that are now acknowledged by most writers on Fossil 

 Botany to belong to Calamites, but the difficulty of assigning 

 them to any one species of Calamite is so great that no attempt 

 can be made to correlate them with any one species of Calamite. 



PLANTS INCERTiE SEDIS. 



ANNULARIA, Sternberg. 



Annularia stellata, Schlotheim sp. 



Type — Casuarinites stellatus, Schloth., Flor. Yor., pi. 1, 



f.4. 



Aster ophyllites equisetiformis, L. etH., Foss. Flora, pi. 124. 

 Annularia fertilis, Sternb., Yers. I., pi. 51, f. 2. 



,, longifolia, Lesqx., CoalFloraPenns.,pl. 2, 



f. 2. 



,, spinulosa, Sternb., Yers. I., pi. 19, f. 4. 



79. — Asterophyllites equisetiformis, L. et H. Presented to Mr. Hutton 

 by Mr. Thomas Sopwith, not earlier, as far as I can ascertain, 

 than 1837. It is a fine impression, on a slab of fine shale, of 

 two branchlets, each about six inches in length ; one has seven 

 whorls of leaves, and the other four whorls. It is not a local 

 specimen, but probably from one of our Western Coal-fields. 



Loc— Unknown. {H. C. 100). 



Remarlcs. — This foliage has not been found in the Newcastle 

 Coal-field. It has been stated that Asterophyllites (Stachannu- 

 larid) tulerculata has been found organically connnected with 

 this foliage. If this were true, it would be strange that the 

 fructification should occur not rarely in several localities in this 

 coal-field and the foliage be entirely unobserved. In this cata- 

 logue Asterophyllites tulerculata is considered the fructification 

 of a Calamite, and the whorls of leaves round the joints of the 

 fertile spike strongly support this opinion. 



