64 CATALOGUE OF FOSSIL PLANTS 



(URNATOPTERIS, Kidston.) 



Sphenopteris tenella, Brongniart. 



Type — Sphenopteris tenella, Brongt., Hist. Yeg. Foss., 



pi. 49, f. 1. 



Sphenopteris delicatula, Brongt., Hist. Yeg. Foss., pi. 58, f. 4. 

 ,, multifida, L. etH., Foss. Flora, pi. 123. 



,, linearis, Lebour, 111. Foss. Pits., pi. 32. 



,, sp. Lebour, 111. Foss. Pits., pi. 39. 



Urnatopteris tenella, Kidston, Q. J. G-. S., Yol. 40., p. 594, 



pi. 25. 

 Eusphenopteris „ Kidston, Ann. and Mag. JN"at. Hist., 



5thser.,Yol. 10,pl.l,f.l-6. 

 ,, ,, Kidston, Boy. Phys. Soc. Ed., Yol. 7, 



pl.l,f.l,2(excl.f.3,4,5,6). 



(ZEILLERIA, Kidston). 



Yariety. 



Sphenopteris delicatula, Sternb., Yers. I., pi. 26, f. 5. 



,, meifolia, Sternb., Yers. II., pi. 20, f. 5. 



Zeilleria delicatula, Kidston, Q. J. Gr. S., Yol. 40, pi. 25. 



102. — Sphenopteris multifida, L. et H. (Sph. linearis, Stb. Lebour, 



111. Foss. Pits., pi. 32). Type. 

 Impression of portion of small frond. 

 Loc. — Shale above the Bensham Seam, Jarrow. (H. C. 623). 



103. Two specimens on one tablet, one slab a single pinna 



shewing the terminal portion ; on the other slab two or three 

 fronds shewing the branching and nervation distinctly. 

 Loc. — Shale above the High-Main Seam, Gosforth. (H. C. 

 625, 626). 



104. — Sphenopteris delicatula, Sternb. 



Small frond with alternating branches. This is probably the 

 fructification of one of the small ferns, S. tenella, Bt. 

 Loc— Shale above the High-Main Seam, Gosforth. {H. C. 171). 



Bemarhs. — It should always be borne in mind that Sternberg, 

 Brongniart, Hutton, and others often figured and described 

 merely small fragments of fossil plants ; and the same authors 

 often depended on drawings made by others, and which we may 

 presume to say were not always strictly accurate, at least we 

 may be allowed to think this with respect to the drawings of 

 this species which were sent to Brongniart and to Hutton, and 



