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List of Fossil Plants from Bradford Colliery, Manchester, from Shales 

 extending from about 24 to 321 feet above the bradford four- 

 Foot Coal. 



Bhabdocarpus clavatus (Sternb.). 



1823. Carpolithes clavatus, Sternb. ' Essai 

 d'un Expose geogn.-botan. de la Flore du 

 monde prim.' fasc. iv, p. xl & fasc. i, 

 pi. vii, figs. 14 a-b. 



1826. Carpolithes lagenarius, Sternb. ibid. 

 fasc. iv, p. xli & fasc. i, pi. vii, fig. 16. 



1855. Hhabdocarpos clavatus, G-einitz, 

 ' Versteinerungen d. Steinkohlenforma- 

 tion in Sachsen ' p. 42 & pi. xxii, figs. 12- 

 14. 



Staffordian Series. 



(Subdivision, Blackball d Group.) 



Sphenopteris artemisicsfolioides, Crepin- 

 Sphenopteris Ascherborni (Stur). 

 Sphenopteris dilatata, L. & H. 

 Sphenopteris obtusiloba, Brongn. 

 Oligocarpia Guthieri, Goppert. 1 

 Pecopteris Miltoni (Artis). 

 JDactylotheca plumosa (Artis). 

 Mariopteris muricata (Schl.). 

 Neuropteris cf. callosa, Lesq. 

 Neuropteris heterophylla, Brongn. 

 Neuropteris obliqua (Brongn.). 

 Neuropteris rarinervis, Bunbury. 

 Neuropteris Scheuchzeri, Hoffra. 

 Neuropteris tenuifolia (Schl.). 

 Linop'teris Miinsteri, Eichw. 

 Aphlebia crispa (Guthier). 

 Catamites Cisti, Brongn. 

 Catamites ramosus, Artis. 

 Catamites SucJcowi, Brongn. 

 Catamites undulatus, Sternb. 

 Calamocladus charceformis (Sternb.). 

 Cala?nocladus equisetiformis (Schl.). 

 Calamocladus grandis (Sternb.). 

 Annularia radiata, Brongn. 

 Annularia sphenophylloides (Zenker). 

 Pinnularia capillacea, L. & H. 

 Pinnularia columnaris (Artis). 

 Sphenophyllum cuneifolium (Sternb.). 

 Sphenophyllum emarginatum, Brongn. 

 Lepidodendron lycopodioides (Sternb.), 

 Zeiller. 2 

 Lepidodendron rimosum, Sternb. 

 Lepidostrobus variabilis, L. & H. 

 Lepidophyllum lanceolatum, L. & H. 

 Bothrodendron minutifolium (Boulay). 

 Bothrodendron sp. no v. 

 Sigillaria discophora (Konig). 

 Stigmaria ficoides (Sternb.). 

 Stigmaria ficoides, var. undulata, 

 Goppert. 



Westphalian Series. (Middle 



Coal-Measures.) 



Species from shale immediately 

 below the Bradford Four-Foot Coal, 

 Bradford Colliery, Manchester: — 



Neuropteris gigantea, Sternb. 

 Neuropteris tenuifolia (Schl.). 

 Linopteris Miinsteri (Eichw.). 

 Linopteris obliqua (Bunbury). 

 Calamocladus eqidsetiformis (Schl.). 

 Lepidodendron lycopodioides (Sternb.), 



Zeiller. 

 Lepidostrobus anthemis (Konig). 

 Lepidostrobus variabilis, L. & H. 

 Lepidophyllum lanceolatum, L. & H. 



Species from shale 261 feet below 

 the Bradford Four-Foot Coal, Brad- 

 ford Colliery, Manchester: — 



Sphenopteris cf. schatzlarensis (Stur). 

 Mariopteris muricata (Schl.). 

 Linopteris obliqua (Bunbury). 

 Catamites Cisti, Brongn. (?). 

 Catamites undidatus, Sternb. 

 Calamocladus equisetiformis (Schl.). 

 Annularia sphenophylloides (Zenker). 

 Sphenophyllum cuneifolium (Sternb.). 

 Sphenophyllum majus, Bronn (?). 

 Lepidophloios sp. 

 Lepidostrobus anthemis (Konig). 



Discussion. 



Dr. Wheelton Hind said that he would enter a caveat against 

 the adoption of the new classification of the Coal-Measures proposed 

 by the Author. The study of paleobotany was of the highest 

 importance, but plants were not the only fossils found in the Coal- 

 Measures ; the evidence of all the fossils alike, fishes and mollusca 



1 The Disco pteris (?) Balli of Mr. Gerrard's list, op. cit. p. 561. 



2 As figured by Prof. Zeiller, in his ' Description de la Flore fossile du Bassin 

 houiller de Valenciennes ' (Gites mineraux de la France) 1886, pi. lxix, figs. 2-3 

 & pi. lxx, fig. 1. 



