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nearly at right angles to the axis of the branch. Microconchus 



and other organisms on the same slab. 



Loc. — Shale above the Bensham Seam, Jarrow. (H. C. 3C9). 



194. Portion of a small stem, with elongated lozenge-shaped 



scars. 



Loc. — Shale above the Beusham Seam, Jarrow. (B. C. 372). 



195.— Lepidostrobus variabilis, L. et H. Type specimen, F.F., pi. 10, 



f. 1. 

 No label on this specimen when found in the collection. The 

 slab has on it two other long specimens besides the one 

 figured and the small fragment on the right of it which helps 

 much to identify the specimen with Hutton's pi. 10, f. 1. 



196. L. et H. This specimen is twice labelled by Hutton 



"Lepidostrobus variabilis, Jarrow, B., P. 10 and 11," but it 

 cannot be identified with any of the figures given in those 

 plates in the Fossil Flora. It is about six inches long, but 

 not perfect at the apex, and about three-quarters of an inch 

 broad. It shews some parts of the axis of the cone very dis- 

 tinctly ; surface partly covered with subtetragonal markings. 

 The capsular bracts are wanting, indicating an old mature 

 cone. I am of opinion that the very long cones figured by 

 Hutton, Fossil Flora, pi. 10, f. 1a, and the long cone on pi. 11, 

 belong to L. selaginoides and not to L. Sternbergii. 

 Loc. — Shale above the Bensham Seam, Jarrow. (E.C. 439). 



197. — Lepidostrobus . 



A very long narrow cone attached to a portion of branch with 

 lozenge-shaped impressions. The bracts are long, pointed, 

 ridged, and pressed close to the body of the cone. This is 

 very probably the fructification of L. selaginoides, Sternb. 

 Loc. — Shale above the Bensham Seam, Jarrow. (R. C. 434). 



198. This specimen, about nine inches in length, is very simi- 

 lar to the preceding, and belongs undoubtedly to the same 

 species of Lepidodendron. 

 Loc. — Shale above the Bensham Seam, Jarrow. (H. C. 433). 



Remarks. — I take Sternberg's figure, tab. 17, f. 1, and the 

 Lindley -Hutton figure, F. F., pi. 113, to be the most typical of 

 this very distinct species. The Type-specimen of the Foss. Flora 

 Plate 113 is in the Collection of the Natural History Society, 

 and accords in all particulars with Sternberg's figure, tab. 17, 



