EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES AND WOOD-CUTS. 



figured of this remarkable form have been obtained from the new red sandstone 

 of Bamberg. 

 Fig. 5. AnthoUtes anomalus, n.s. Flower spiked, more crowded towards the apex, 

 calyx apparently shorter than the petals ?, furnished with a small lanceolate bract ; 

 stigma or Carpella ? bilocular, elevated upon a long curved filament. 



The absence of more defined characters renders the affinity of this plant doubt- 

 ful. It has some resemblance to the flowers of Orobanche or even Scitaminece as 

 Hedychhim, which have, however, large fleshy bi'acts. In the Broineliacecc are 

 flowers of a somewhat similar shape, but they are not furnished with the long 

 filamentous appendage which appears to be characteristic of this fossil. The genus 

 Lacis has a two-celled Carpella upon a long pedicle, but the flowers are ratlier 

 different from our s})ecimen. 

 Cyclopteris semifiabeUiformis, n.s. PI. XXXVIII. fig. 7. Frond pinnate?, leaves 

 entire, half-fanshaped ; veins distant, diverging, dichotomously furcate. 



This specimen has some affinity to the leaf of Salisbmia adiantifolia, but diflers 

 from it in the veins being more numerous and more generally furcate along the up- 

 per margin, which is entire and not deeply cleft as in Salisburia. It more closely 

 resembles the lower leaves of Otopteris acuminata, var. brevifolia, Foss.Flor. t.208. 

 Lycopoditesl longibracteatus, n.s. PI. XXXVIII. fig. 8, 9, 10, 11. Stem round, 

 marked by the cicatrices of the fallen leaves, which are close, lozenge-shaped, 

 and spirally disposed. 



Fructification in terminal imbricated spikes, thecae reuiform, minutely tubercii- 

 lated, each attached by its centre to the base of a long, lanceolate, foUacevus 

 bractea. 



The tliecae resemble in shape those of the recent genus Stachijgi/nandrum, 

 but as tlie capsules vary in form in different parts of the spike in that genus, it is 

 difficult to assign its affinity to that division of the Lijcopodiacece. 



The capsules, PI. XXXVIII. fig. 8, Sa. of this species, neither bituminized nor 

 mineralized, but in a state of brown vegetable matter, are very abundant in some 

 of the coarser sandstones of the coal-measures. 



Plates XXXIX. and XL. 



Fossil shells from the coal-measures described and engraved by Mr. James de Carle 



Sowerby, F.L.S. 

 Fig. 1. Donaxt sulcata. Subtriangular, convex; anterior side rounded; posterior 



side produced, pointed ; beaks prominent ; in the cast there is a furrow descending 



obliquely from each beak towards the posterior angle. Length in some specimens 



1 inch 4 lines ; width If inch. 



The name of this fossil is but temporary, neither tlie structure of the hinge nor 



the external surface being known. 

 Fig. 5i. Venus ? carbonaria. Obovate, convex ; anterior side rounded ; the posterior 



side truncated, squarish ; beaks rather prominent ; shell most gibbose towartls 



the beaks. 



