LYCOPODITES. 13 



Bartholin, Miiller, and Hartz, the same species occurs in Born- 

 holm and East Greenland. The plant described by Eaciborski 

 as Equisetiim RenauUi from Poland belongs either to Sternberg's- 

 species or represents a closely allied form. Specimens from 

 Ehaetic rocks of Tonkin recently figured by Zeiller ' and referred 

 by him to a distinct species, JE^uisetum Sarrani, point to the 

 occurrence in the far East of a closely allied, if not identical type. 



V. 3358. PL I. Fig. 4. 



Type-specimen of Buckman's Hquisetum Brodiei (Quart. Journ. 

 Greol. Soc. vol. vi. p. 414 ; figure \ natural size). The specimen 

 is 20 cm. long and 1 cm. broad, with three nodes, two of which 

 are shown in the portion represented in Eig. 4. The broad inter- 

 nodal ribs and the few broad leaf-teeth suggest the reference of 

 this specimen to the species Equisetites Muensteri,^ an identification 

 first made by Carruthers, to whom the fossil was submitted in 

 1889. Buokman describes the specimen as fertile, btit there is no 

 trace of any strobilus. 



Strensham, Worcestershire. Brodie Coll. 



V. 774. Two carbonaceous bodies, which may be nodal 

 diaphragms of an Equisetaceous stem : too obscure to determine. 



Purchased, 1886. 



Class LYCOPODIALES. 



Genus LYCOPODITES, Brongniart.' 



[Prodrome, p. 83, 1828.] 



This generic name is used in a comprehensive sense as including 

 fossils which may belong either to the heterosporous Selaginellacete 

 or to the homosporous Lycopodiacese. In view of the careful 

 examination by Miss Sollas of specimens of the plant formerly 

 described as Naiadita laneeolata, I have adopted the name 

 Lycopodites as the more fitting designation. 



1 Zeiller (02), pi. xxxix. 



' Cf. Schenk (67), pis. ii. and iii. Compare also Equisetnm Sarrani, Zeill., 

 Zeiller (02), pi. xxxix. 

 3 See Seward (00), p. 68. 



