14 NATHORST. FOSSIL PLANTS OF FRANZ JOSEF LAND. [noew. pol. exp. 



34 (enlarged fig. 55) which shows narrower leaves, might tend to the sup- 

 position of the occurrence of Gz. setacea. It really seems as if the leaves of 

 some were dichotomously branched, but it is not quite certain, so that here 

 also our thoughts may turn to leaves of Pinites. 



PHOENICOPSIS, Heer. 



Phoenicopsis cf. augusHfolia Heer. 

 PI. I. figs. 39-41, pi. II. figs. 1—6. 



The occurrence of the genus Phoenicopsis is proved by the specimen 

 figured on PI. I, fig. 41, which presents a fascicule of long Unear leaves 

 with parallel veins proceeding from a short shoot. Unfortunately the leaves 

 of this specimen are in such a bad state of preservation, and run into one 

 another so, that their true breadth cannot be ascertained. Consequently 

 neither their form nor the number of veins on each leaf can be determined; 

 these seem however to have been at least ten. The specimen, fig. 39, on 

 the same plate, shows a fasciculate arrangement of the leaves, but they do 

 not reach down to the short shoot. 



Heer (Flora fossilis arctica, vol. 4) states the number of veins in Phoe- 

 nicopsis angustifolia to be 6 — 10, in Ph. speciosa to be 15 — 23, in Ph. 

 latior to be 20 — 80. Those specimens figured in PI. II. which I suppose may 

 belong here, have 8 — 10 veins, except the specimen, fig. 2, in which the up- 

 per part of the leaf shows 11. The species thus seems probably to be angusti- 

 folia, but this cannot be determined with perfect certainty, owing to the pre- 

 sent material being so bad. 



The fossil which is figured by Newton and Teall in their first paper on 

 PI. 38, fig. 10, and with some hesitation brought under Baiera, should evi- 

 dently be placed here. The specimen is figured upside down. 



FEILDENIA, Heer. 



The occurrence of this genus is assumed by me chiefly in consequence 

 of the specimen that is represented PI. I, fig. 28 and which, as also fig. 29, 

 has already been figured in Nansen's 'Farthest North' (vol. II, p. 486, fig. 

 4 & 5). However, elsewhere ^ I have adduced the difficulty of distinguishing the 



1 A. a. Nathorst, 'Zur mesozoischen Flora Spitzbergens'. Kgl. Svenska Vetenskaps 

 Akademiens Handlingar, vol. 30, no 1, Stockholm 1897- 



