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171. — Pecopteris BucMandi, L. et H. Type specimen, F. F., pi. 223. 

 Coal-field, Newcastle, is the locality given by Hutton; but 

 this is erroneous, as the specimen bears evidence in the shape 

 of a large piunule of N. Scheuchzeri and the shale of the 

 matrix that it belongs to the Somersetshire Coal-field, and 

 probably the same locality as the Brongniartian type. 

 Portion of frond with numerous pinna?, most of them perfectly 

 preserved and with the veining of the pinnules very fine and 

 distinct. On the same slab is a large pinnule of Neuropteris 

 Scheuchzeri, L. et H., three and a half inches in length and 

 more than one inch broad. 



Loc— Somersetshire Coal-field. (H. C. 269). 



172.— Neuropteris attenuata, L. et H. Type specimen, F. F., pi. 174. 

 Locality doubtful, but I am of opinion that, like the former, 

 it is from the Somersetshire Coal-field, and further, that this 

 specimen is, though described as a Neuropteris, identical with 

 Pecopteris BucMandi. The figure is very bad. It differs from 

 BucMandi only in not being pressed so flat. The pinna? also 

 are much closer (in fact they overlap) than in Hutton's figure. 

 The pinnules have the entire base attached ; the nerves also 

 are less oblique and bifurcate nearer the mid-rib of the pin- 

 nules. The Neuropteris-like atttachment of the pinnules in 

 Hutton's figure is purely imaginary, as this fern is a true 

 Pecopteris. It is doubtless a portion of a younger and more 

 terminal part of a pinna of P. BucMandi. 



Loc. — Somersetshire Coal-field. (H. C. 168). 



Remarks. — Mr. Kidston has expressed a doubt as to the iden- 

 tity of the Lindley-Hutton Type-specimen with Brongniart's 

 species, but assuredly this unusual caution was not required. 

 The veining is the same, the shape of the pinnules and the 

 locality are the same, and to prove the latter there is on the 

 same slab a remarkably fine, large pinnule of Neuropteris Scheuch- 

 zeri, which I formerly took for N. cordata, and which species, 

 so far as my observation goes, has never been found in this 

 Northern Coal-field. Not only the P. BucMandi, L. et H., but 

 also the Neuropteris attenuata, L. et H., belongs to Brongniart's 

 fine species and both are, likewise, from the same Somersetshire 

 Coal-field. 



