60 



DK. E. A. NEWELL AKBER ON THE [April I914, 



Middle Coal Measure Flora 



OF WOODNESBOROUGH (coilt.). 



Species. 



Pteridosperme^ and Filicales (cont.). 



Eremopteris artemisiaefolia (Sternb.) 



Cornucarpus acutus (L. & H.) 



Pecopteris miltoni (Art.) 



P. (Dactylotheca) plumosa (Art.) 



Mariopteris muricata (Schloth.) 



Lycopodiales. 



Lepidodendron lycopodioides (?) Sternb. 



Sigillaria tessellata (Steinh.) 



Asolanus canvptotxnia Wood 



Lepidophyllum minus Goode 



Lepidostrobus variabilis L. & H 



i CORDAITALES. 



Cordaites borassifolius (Sternb.) 

 C. principalis ? (Germ.) 



Semina incert^ sedis. 



Samaropsis meachemi (Kidst.) 

 S.fluitans (Daws.) 



Frequency. 



X = rare. 

 XX = frequent. 

 XXX = abundant. 



Of the foregoing records, Neuropteris ovata HofErn. had not 

 been previously found below the Transition Coal Measures. Here 

 it occurs near the top of the Middle Coal Measures. 



Samaropsis meachemi (Kidst.) is a rare seed, only known from 

 the Middle Coal Measures in a few localities. 



VI. The Mattice Hill Boeing. 

 (Lat. 51° 15' N., long. 1° 20' E.) 



A boring at Mattice Hill, midway between Sandwich and Worth, 

 and close to the railway, proved 1076 feet of Coal Measures 

 before entering the Carboniferous Limestone. The beds penetrated 

 consisted chiefly of shales, which were exceptionally rich in well- 

 preserved fossil plants. Further, owing to the extremely large 

 size of the cores, which in some cases exceeded 30 cm. in diameter, 

 many excellent specimens were obtained, and this boring has so far 

 proved to be the richest in fossil plants that has as yet been put 

 down in Kent. No less than forty species have been determined 

 from these cores, and these indicate unmistakably that the whole 

 of the Measures penetrated here belong to the Middle Coal 

 Measures. 



