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CATALOGUE OP FOSSIL PLANTS 



Sphenopteris obovata, Lindley et Hutton. 



Type 



? Sphenopteris Hibherti, 

 excelsa, 



Sphenopteris obovata, L. etH., Foss. Flora, pi. 109 



(Jan., 1834). 

 L. et H., Foss. Flora, pi. 177. 

 L. etH., Foss.Flora,pl.212(1837) 

 Hoeninghausi, L. etH. (nonBrongt.), Foss. Flora, 



pi. 204. 

 decomposita, Kidston, Brit. Mus. Cat., p. 76. 

 ,, Kidston, Trans. Boy. Soc. Edinb., 



Vol. 30, pi. 32, f. 1,4, 5. 

 Hoeninghausi, Kidston, Trans. Boy. Soc. Edinb., 



Vol. 30, p. 538. 

 Haueri, Stur, Culm Flora, Heft I., taf. 7, 



f. 3—6. 

 JEttinghauseni, Stur, Culm Flora, Heft I. , taf . 6, 



f.9; pi. 7, f. 1,2. 

 Hiblerti, Kidston, Trs. Boy. Soc.Ed., Yol.30, 



pi. 30, f. 1. 

 excelsa, Kidston, Trs. Boy. Soc. Ed., Yol.30, 



pi. 30, f. 2. 



105. — Sphenopteris obovata, L. et H. Type specimen, F. F., pi. 109. 

 Stated by Hutton, in Foss. Flora, ii., p. 109, to be from the 

 Newcastle Coal-field, although it was drawn from a specimen 

 sent to him by the late T. Allan, Esq., Lauriston Castle, Edin- 

 burgh. It is, in my opinion, not from the Newcastle Coal-field, 

 but from the Calciferous sandstone series of the neighbourhood 

 of Edinburgh, and is identically the same species as Sphenopteris 

 excelsa and Sphenopteris Hoeninghausi of the same authors, 

 which have also, though stated otherwise in Foss. Flora, been 

 obtained from the same locality. The specimen exhibits frag- 

 ments of three or four pinnae, distinctly preserved. 

 Loc— Calciferous sandstone, near Edinburgh. (H. C. 197). 



106. — Sphenopteris Hoeninghausi, L. et H. (non Brongt.) Type speci- 

 men, pi. 204. 

 Stated by Hutton to be from Low-Main Seam, Felling Colliery, 

 but it is, in my opinion, like the preceding species, from the 

 Calciferous sandstone series in the neighbourhood of Edin- 

 burgh. It differs entirely from Brongniart's species, specimens 

 of which were sent to him from this district by James Losh, 

 Esq., Recorder of Newcastle. The specimen is part of a 

 large regularly grown frond, with numerous pinna?, and the 

 pinnules much lobed and the terminal pinnules obovate. I 

 cannot see how this specimen can be regarded as distinct from 

 the preceding, or from the Sphenopteris excelsa, L. et H. 

 Loc. — Calciferous sandstone, near Edinburgh. (H.C. 174). 



