132 CATALOGUE OF FOSSIL PLANTS 



name of one of the authors of the Fossil Flora is appended to 

 this probably distinct species till further research shall enable 

 some one to determine its true relationship. 



Although numerous fragments and the above nearly perfect 

 leaves were found in the Hutton Collection, we find no allusion 

 in the Fossil Flora to their occurrence in this Coal-field, and the 

 only plant Lindley and Hutton figure allied apparently to Cor- 

 daites is their Poacites cocoina, F. F., pi. 142b, in which two 

 leaves or fragments of leaves are arranged one within a slit of 

 the other, at least that appears to be the explanation of their 

 proximity. If these are not Cordaites leaves it will be difficult 

 to refer them to any other known Coal-measure plant. 



INFLORESCENCE AND FEUIT. 



Cardiocarpon ? Lindleyi (Carruthers sp.). 



Type — Antholithes Pitcairnise, L. et H., Foss. Flora, 



pi. 82. 

 Fruit. 



Carpolithes morchellaformis, Sternb., Vers. L, pi. 7, f. 5. 



,, acwminatus, Sternb., Vers. I., pi. 7, f. 4. 



,, corculum, Sternb., Vers. I., pi. 7, f. 6. 



,, contractus, Sternb., Vers. I., pi. 7, f. 7. 



Cardiocarpon Lindleyi, Carruth. Geol. Mag., Vol. 9, p. 56. 



,, apiculatwn, Schimp., TraitePal. Veg.,Vol. 2, 



p. 224. 

 254. — Antholithes Pitcairnice, L. et H. 



Stem about five inches long, with tufts of inflorescence ar- 

 ranged in pairs, not exactly opposite but as if spirally arranged 

 in short and decreasing distances up the stem, which termi- 

 nates with a large inflorescence ; stem flattened and finely 

 longitudinally striated. The surface of the slab covered with 

 numerous impressions of a small fresh-water mollnsca, An- 

 thracomya. 

 Loc. — Shale above the Low-Main Seam, Felling. (H.C. 570). 



255. Lower part of a rather larger spike of inflorescence ; the 



tufts of inflorescence distinctly impressed or defined, and send- 

 ing off fine filamentous threads from the centre, but shew no 

 fruit attached. Several Cardiocarpon apiadatum on the slab. 

 Loc. — Shale above the Bensham Seam, Jarrow. (H. C. 571). 



