286 CATALOGUE OF PALEHOZOIC PLANTS. 
be illustrated by examples. On P a a Calamites decoratus 
Hichwald, sp.; C. striatus Cotta d Arthropitys bistriata 
Cotta, sp. The first of these stivon: nae described by Hichwald in 
1860 as Hquisetites decoratus, and, under the name it bears here, by 
Schimper in 1869; it is, theref ore, C. decratus Schimper. ae 
also named Calamites Co fers by Stern bee if, t ther oe bE is a 
true Calieien its name is C. Cotteanus Sternberg, and C. striatus 
Kidston’’ becomes an eaten synonym. In 1832 also 
Cotta described Calamitea bistriata, which was not cap at to 
founded by Gippert, whose authority the name shoul 
This blemish affects a considerable number of the specific ane. 
so that, in addition to three professedly new names, Byki 
Scotica, Lepidophloios Seoticus, and Bythotrephis divaricata, all o 
“ Kidston,” here first described, the following twenty-four pou 
also apparently be quoted on the same ig —Voltzia peas 
“‘Genitz, sp.” [sic]; Calamites varians, var. cruciatus ‘‘ Sternberg, 
ab : Sphenophyllum nee var. sacifragafolinm ‘‘ Brongniart”’ ; 
Sph enopteridium Plantianu ‘« Carruthers, sp.”’; Rhacopteris flabel- 
lata ‘* Tate, sp.” ; Calymmatotheca afinis and C. bifida ‘ Lindley & 
Sig 
ruthers, sp.”; S. aquensis wensis “ Kon age poem obovatus “‘ Car- 
ru rs, sp.”’; Cardi eae y; sp.’ re oF Lindleyt 
“Carruthers”; C. anomalus i Mace. i; pe ds preter Kiinss- 
bergit * Gutbie er, . ”; Palaoxyris helicteroides ‘* Morris, sp.’ 
Asteroc alamites sevobiculates ** Schlotheim, sp.”; Calamocladus 
acicularis ‘* Dawson, sp.”; nse Sgt curtiloba ‘* Dawson, sp.’ 
Pa aleopteris Rogersi, P,. Gaspien P. Brownii, and Ara ueari- 
Ouangondianum, attributed to the same authority, and 
niutabitie are two us. names, which the cated: following. sn 
undesirable agen accepts pe om Baron von Ettin tingsha ausen. It 
is perhaps a pity that such names as Permica and Scotica should 
be with initial capitals; but the most heinous offences 
against 3 generally -acoepted laws are the names assigned to the five 
foll plumosa * Artis, sp.’ secemepies tt 
crispum * Gutbier, sp.” ; Sigillaria discophora «Konig, sp.”; Lepi 
strobus anthemis énig, sp-; and Annularia latifolia «Dawson, 
sp. Of these the first was named, in 1825, by Artis, in Pe 
Antediluvian Phytology,’ Filicites Saioded: but in 1 
referred by Zeiller to his new genus Dactylotheca, with the speci 
name Ps sig ow 4eiller was not bound to adopt the name 
— giaeophyllum lactuca of Schimper * (1869) should i been left so; 
a Sgann: diesophore ‘* Konig, sp.” should be S. Preuiana Romer 
