1858.] MOERIS FOSSIL FERN. 83 



not possessing a distinct midrib, it appears allied to the species de- 

 scribed by him under the name of W. ohtusilohiis* from the coal- 

 measures of "Waldenburg in Silesia. 



In describing these fragments, I have merely wished to call the 

 attention of collectors, and those resident near our coal-fields and 

 interested in the palaeozoic flora, to this comparatively scarce fern, 

 in the hope of obtaining some further information on the subject, 

 or the loan of specimens which would more completely indicate its 

 true affinities. 



For the present I would provisionally assign it to the genua 

 Woodwardites, with the specific name of Robertsi, in honour of the 

 discoverer. 



It may, however, hereafter prove to be merely some abnormal 

 condition of a species of Sjphenojpteris, Pecopteris, or Neuropteris (like 

 N. conferta, Sternb.). 



Locality. Collected from a thin bed of light-coloured micaceous 

 sandy shale, occurring between two beds of coarse grit, and con- 

 sidered by Mr. Roberts to belong to an estuarine deposit of the 

 coal-period. These beds lie unconformably on Old Eed Cornstone, 

 just below the Hill Farm, on the east bank of the Severn, about two 

 miles north-east of Eewdley. 



Table of the Chief Forms of the Fossn, Feens which have a 

 Reticulate or Anastomosing Yenation. 



Andriania Baruthina Braun Lias. 



Camptopteris Bergeri Sternberg .... Lias. 



„ crenata Sternb Lias. 



„ biloba Sternb Cretaceous. 



„ Muensteriana . . Sternb Lias. 



Clathropteris meniscioides .... Brongniart .... Trias. 



„ Nilssoni Brong. sp Oolite? 



DictyophyUum ? rugosum . . . . Lindl.^ HuttonTiim. 

 Dictyopteris Brongniarti .... Gutbier Coal-measures. 



„ neuropteroides . . Gutbier Coal-measures. 



„ obliqua Bunbury .... Coal-measures. 



„ spec, nov Morris Jurassic ?, India. 



Diplodictyum obtusilobum .... Braun Lias. 



Glossopteris Browniana Brongn Coal-measures. 



„ angustifolia Brongn Coal-measures. 



„ Phillipsii Brongn.(-p3irs). . Oolite. 



Gutbieria, Presl ; referred to Cyatheites and Pecopteris by Goeppert. 

 Lonchopteris Bricei Brongn Coal-measures. 



„ anomala Brongn Coal-measures. 



„ Germari Giebel Coal of Lobejun. 



„ ? Huttoni Presl Oolite. 



* Syst. Fil. Foss. p. 289, tab. 21. f. 1 ; Nova Acta Acad. C. L.-C. Natur® Cu- 

 riosorum, vol. xvii. Supp. 1836. 



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