FROM THE HUTTON COLLECTION. 107 



the figure pi. 198, Foss. Flora, are due to the conchoidal frac- 

 ture of the shale and the bad observation of the draughtsman. 

 The rhomboidal or lozenge-shaped leaf-scars on the foliar 

 cushions stand out rather prominently and distinct. There 

 was no label on this specimen when found in the collection, 

 but it is fortunate that it was carefully conserved. Presented 

 to Hutton by Dr. Stevens, North Shields. 

 Loc. — Shale above High-Main Seam, So. Shields. (H. C. 454). 



218.— Pinus anthracina, L. et H. Type specimen, F. F., pi. 164. 



This specimen was presented to Hutton by John Buddie, the 

 eminent coal-viewer, and contributor of several valuable 

 papers connected with coal-mining to the Transactions of the 

 Natural History Society. It is a cast in a very coarse mixture 

 of sand and small, rounded, clay-ironstone nodules, resembling 

 a conglomerate. Similar deposits occur in different parts of 

 this Coal-field. This celebrated specimen is the only instance 

 given of a cone of the genus Pinus in the Coal-measures by 

 writers and compilers on Carboniferous Fossils. It is in 

 reality only an impression of shape of the leaf-cushions of 

 Sternberg's Lepidophloios laricinus. There are about fifteen 

 of these cushions on the specimen, and they are so preserved 

 as to give the appearance of a genuine cone, but Hutton's 

 figure brings out more prominently than the original warrants 

 the cone-like appearance of this curiously preserved fossil. 

 Loc— Newcastle Coal-field. (H. C. 538). 



213. — Halonia regularis, L. et H. 



A fine bifurcating impression in shale, with the cone V-scars 

 or tubercles very numerous and distinctly marked, and slight 

 impressions of the leaf -scars. 

 Loc. — Shale above the Bensham Seam, Jarrow. (H.C. £18). 



214. A bifurcating impression, similar to the last-mentioned, 



with the tubercles or cone ? -scars distinctly marked. 



Loc— Shale above the Bensham Seam, Jarrow. (H.C. 419). 



215. Impression in shale, with the tubercles and leaf-markings 



distinct. 



Loc. — Shale above the Bensham Seam, Jarrow. (H.0. 417). 



216. — Lepidophyllum lanceolatum ? 



A short branch with terminal tuft of leaves of Lepidophyllum. 

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



