83 



Genus ALGITBS, Seward. 

 [Wealden Flora, vol. i. p. 4, 1894.] 



? Algites furcatus (Broagn.). 



[Prodrome, p. 198, 1828.] 



IS^S. Fiicoides furcatus, Brongniart, Prodrome, p. 198. 



F. furcatus, Brongniart, Hist. veg. foss. p. 62, pi. iii. fig. 1 . 



1838. Salymenites ramulosus, Sternberg, Flor. Vorwelt, vii. p. 31. 



1845. S. ramulosus, Unger, Synopsis, p. 13. 



1848. S. ramulosus, Bronn, Ind. Pal. p. 565. 



1849. Sphcerococeites ramulosus, Brongniart, Tableau, p. 105. 



1850. Salymenites ramulosus, linger. Gen. spec. foss. plant, p. 23. 

 1854. S. ramulosus, Morris, Brit. Poss. p. 8. 



1856. S. ramulosus, Zigno, Plor. foss. Oolit. vol. i. p. 21. 

 1871. -ff. ramulosus, Phillips, Geol. Oxford, p. 168. 

 1894. H. ramulosus, "Woodward, Lower Ool. p. 600. 



The specimen from Stonesfield to which. Brongniart gave the 

 name Fucoiies furcatus is preserved in the Oxford Museum. It is 

 too obscure and imperfect to be identified as an alga with any 

 ■degree of certainty ; like so many of the fossils referred to the 

 Algse, it represents the impression of a dichotomously branched 

 axis, and bears a resemblance to the forked thallus of Fueus and 

 many other genera of recent Algse. We may retain Brongniart's 

 specific name, with the substitution of the generic term Algites, 

 although specimens of this kind are valueless, and it serves no 

 nseful purpose to include them in lists of fossU. plants. 



I have seen no specimens, with the exception of that in the 

 Oxford Museum, which can be referred to Brongniart's species. 



[Fiicoides elegans, Brongniart. This name was applied by 

 Brongniart in 1823 to a specimen from Stonesfield of which 

 a drawing was sent to him by Buckland. In his later work (Hist, 

 veg. foss. 1828) Brongniart points out that an inspection of the 

 fossil itself in the Oxford Museum convinced him that it should be 

 referred to the Comferse, and not to the Algae. The specimen is no 

 doubt a fragment of a coniferous twig, but it is too small and 

 incomplete to designate by a specific name.J 



