XI V] LYCOPODITES 79 



Reid from the Old Red Sandstone of Caithness, consisting of an 

 axis bearing narrow lanceolate leaves some of which bear 

 sporangia at the base. 



Lycopodites Gutbieri Goeppert\ 



1894, Lycopodites elongatus Kidston^ (not Goldenberg). 



The species, figured by Geinitz as Li/copodites Gutbieri', 

 from the Coal-Measures of Saxony is probably a true re- 

 presentative of the genus. The Saxon specimens are hetero- 

 phyllous ; the larger lanceolate and slightly falcate leaves 

 arranged in two rows, are 4 — 5 mm. long while the smaller 

 leaves are one half or one third this size ; . some of the 

 dichotomously branched shoots terminate in long and narrow 

 strobili not unlike those of Zeiller's species Belaginellites 

 Suissei^. Kidston^ has included under this specific name some 

 fragments collected by Hemingway from the Upper Coal- 

 Measures of Radstock, Somersetshire, but as only one form of 

 leaf is seen the reasons for adopting Goeppert's designation are 

 perhaps hardly adequate. 



Lycopodites ciliatus Kidston®. 



Under this name Kidston describes a small specimen, 

 obtained by Hemingway fi-om the Middle Coal-Measures of 

 BarnSley in Yorkshire, consisting of a slender forked axis 

 bearing oval-acuminate leaves approximately 5 mm. long with 

 a finely ciliate margin. Associated with the leaves were found 

 spores which Kidston regards as megaspores. 



Lycopodites macrophyllus Goldenberg^. 



This species, originally described by Goldenberg fi-om the 

 Coal-Measures of Saarbrttcken has been re-examined by Halle ^ 

 who is unable to confirm Goldenberg's statement as to hetero- 



1 Goeppert (52) p. 440. ^ Kidston (94) A. p. 254. 



3 Geinitz (55) A. p. 32, PL i. fig. 1. * Page 88. 



5 Kidston (01) p. 36, fig. 2, B. * Kidston (01) p. 37, fig. 2, A. 



7 Goldenberg (55) PI. i. fig. 5. « Halle (07) PI. i. fig. 5. 



