70 CATALOGUE OF FOSSIL PLANTS 



Sphenopteris Hoeninghausi, Brongniart. 



Type — Sphenopteris Hoeninghausi, Brongt., Hist.Yeg. 



Foss., pi. 52. 



Sphenopteris Hoeninghausi, Andrse, Vorw. Pflanz., pis. 4, 5. 

 ,, ,, Geinitz, Vers. Steinkf. Sachs., 



pi. 23, f. 5, 6. 

 ,, ,, Zeiller, Yeg. Foss. Terr. Houill., 



pi. 162, f. 4, 5. 

 Calymmotheca Stangeri, Stur, Culm Flora, Heft II., 



taf. 8, 9. 

 110. — Sphenopteris 



Small portion of two pinna?, with several secondary pinna?, 



and numerous pinnules much lobed or divided. 



Loc— Shale above the High-Main Seam,Gosforth. (H. C. 622). 



Remarks. — This small specimen is referred with considerable 

 doubt to Brongniart's S. Hoeninghausi. As it is in a coarse mi- 

 caceous shale many of its characters are obliterated and altered. 

 Brongniart mentions that this species was communicated to him 

 by Mr. Losh from Newcastle. It seems singular that a genuine 

 specimen of so fine a species was not figured in the Fossil Flora, 

 and only the present small doubtful example was found in the 

 Hutton Collection. The few well authenticated local specimens 

 in the Museum Collection are from the lower Coal-seams of the 

 Auckland district. 



Sphenopteris adiantoides, Lindley et Hutton. 



Type — Sphenopteris adiantoides, L. etH., Foss. Flora, 



pi. 115. 



111.— Sphenopteris adiantoides, L. et H. Type specimen, F.F., pi. 115. 

 Portion of frond with several branches of very distantly placed 

 leaves or pinnules ; the leaves somewhat rounded or fan- 

 shaped, and very fine radiating nerves. The habit of the 

 plant exceedingly light and elegant, reminding one of the 

 recent Maiden-hair. 

 Loc. — Shale above the Bensham Seam, Jarrow. (3. C. 179). 



Remarks. — This interesting fern, which forcibly reminds one 

 of the recent Maiden-hair, Adiantum Capillus- Veneris, by its 

 light and airy foliage, appears to be limited to our own Coal- 



