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a uracil later date Stur, in the Culm Flora, has added to these 

 synonyms, for who can look at Stur's figures quoted above of 

 S. JTaueri and 8. Ettinghauseni and doubt their identity with 

 S. obovata. And lastly Mr. Kidston, in the Transactions of the 

 Royal Society of Edinburgh, has furnished another synonym, 

 S. decomposita, to the already extensive list. 



If we accept Mr. Kidston's figure Trans. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh, 

 Vol. 30, pi. 30, f. 2, as a genuine example of 8. excelsa, then 

 must we also place here Kidston's figure of Sphen. Hibberti, 

 var. L. et H., f. 2, of the same work. 



Sphenopteris Hibberti, L. et H., pi. 177, has yet to be worked 

 out and established. At present it is a very doubtful species, 

 and seems to me to be a varietal form of S. obovata badly drawn 

 in the figure given by Hutton. The Type-specimen if found 

 would no doubt assist, and surely some eager collector residing 

 near the locality given for Hutton's specimen could by collecting 

 at the same place do much to solve this doubt. 



(DIPLOTHMEMA, Stur). 



Sphenopteris furcata, Brongniart. 



Type — Sphenopteris furcata, Brongt., Hist. Veg. Foss., 



pi. 49, f. 4, 5. 

 Sphenopteris furcata, L. etH., Foss. Flora, pi. 181. 



,, dissecta, Brongt., Hist. Veg. Foss , pi. 49, 



f. 2, 3. 

 ,, trichomanoides, Brongt., Hist. Veg. Foss., pi. 48, 



f. 3. 

 ,, laxa, Sternb., Vers. I., pi. 31, f. 3. 



,, sp. Lebour., 111. Foss. Pits., pi. 41. 



,, alata, Brongt., Hist. Veg. Foss., pi. 48, 



f. 4. 

 ,, ,, Grutb., Vers.Zwick. Schwarzk., 



pl.5,f.l6,l7;pl.ll,f.l. 

 ,, genieulata, Kidston, Trans. Eoy. Soc. Edinb., 



Vol.33, pi. 21, f. 1. 

 Symenopliyllites Grandini, Goepp., Syst.Fil.Foss.,pl.l5,f.l2. 

 Diplothmema furcatum, Zeill., Veg. Foss. Terr. Houill., 



pi. 162, f. 3. 



107 '.—Sphenopteris furcata, L. et H. Type specimen, F. F., pi. 181. 

 Fine terminal part of frond four to five inches long, with 

 seven pinna? well shewn on the right hand of slab and about 



