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CATALOGUE OF FOSSIL PLANTS 



as some of the branches on the slab have fragments of leaves 

 attached to the joints. The broad ribs of the internodes and 

 the thickened prominent joints also shew that it is not the stem 

 or branch of a Calamite. Hntton's label, "Felling." 



Bechera grandis, L. et IL, pi. 173, is a branchlet and foliage 

 of C. Suclcowii. Hutton's label, "Felling, L.M." 



Sphenophyllum Saxifragae folium, Sternberg. 



Type — Rotularia saxifragaefolia, Sternb., Yers.I.,pl.55, 



f . 4 (stem and leaves). 

 Rotularia pohjphylla, Sternb., Vers. I., pi. 50, f. 4. 



Sphenophyllum saxifragcefolium, Zeill., Yeg. Foss. Terr.Houil., 



pi. 161, f. 3-6. 

 Bowmanites Cambremis, Binney, Obs. on the Struct. 



Foss. Plants, tab. 12 (fertile 

 spike). 



No. 2. 

 84.— Bowmanites Cambrensis, Binney (Woodcut No. 2). A small 

 strobilus or cone-shaped fructification, nearly ovate in outline, 

 covered with a thin layer of carbonaceous matter ; the surface 

 ornamented with rows nearly parallel of elongated raised 

 ridges and intermediate depressed grooves, from the base of 

 which acicular foliar bracts are shewn on the margin to pro- 

 ceed. The cone terminates at the top in a tuft of fine acicular 

 leaves or bracts. It seems to be identical with the cone figured 

 by Binney as Bowmanites. 

 Loc. — Shale above the Bensham Seam, Jarrow. (H. C. — ). 



