126 S.S. Newberry—Fossil Plants from Northern Chana. : 
and gave a list of them in the Bull. de la Soc. Geol. de 
France, 3d Series, vol. ii, 408. They included some 
of the species collected by Pumpelly, and were considered 
by M. Brongniart to represent the Upper Trias and Lower 
Jura. More recently Baron v. Richthofen obtained ee plants 
from various parts of China, and these have been descr y 
A. Schenk in vol. iv of Richthofen’s China. They repre- 
sent two distinct es one Carboniferous and the other 
Mesozoic. The former were found in the districts of Shansi 
and Hunan. pte were Cheers Pecopteris cyathea, P. unita, 
Annularia longifolia Brgt., A. maxima Schenk, Sphenophyilum 
Richthofen obtained a group of Mesozoic plants, among which 
M. Schenk recognized Pecopteris Whithyensis, Podozam ites lan- 
ceolatus, and other species which led him to refer the strata 
containing them to the Brown Jura. 
It is known to most geologists that the extensive coal basins 
of India, from which fossil plants have been described by 
Oldham and Morris and Dr. Feistmantel, are all of Mesozoic 
age. The same is true of the coals of Tonking, Cochin China, 
from which a considerable number of fossil plants have been 
obtained by the French expeditions and described by M. RB. 
Zeiler in the Annales des Mines, October, 1882. 
It would seem. proven, therefore, ar ie coal basins of 
China ( (in which the coal is very largely converted to anthracite 
by local metamorphism), belong to two great geological sys- 
tems, one, as indicated by the plants collected by Baron Rich- 
thofen and Mr. Hague, the equivalent of the Coal-measures—and 
_ probably the entire range of the Coal-measures of Europe and 
Coal-measures in Europe and nee but identical or 
closely allied species, cannot fail to interest both geologists and 
botanists; the first, by the confirmation they afford of the clas- 
sification ‘adopted for the stratified rocks, based on the fossils 
they contain; the latter, from the evidence they furnish of 
Pheenicopsis. Tazxites spatulatus N. is the leaf of a conifer, and not of a cycad, as 
inferred by Heer. It has but a single nerve, the median, which is meune an 
traverses its entire length, and has a wedge-shaped base terminating in a 
isted petiole. The publication of Heer’s important paper on the Grenadin of 
Eastern Siberia has given significance to certain specimens in Pumpelly’s collec- 
tion and has enabled me to add to the list of species Baiera angustiloba Heer 
peek near to B. Munsteriana), Pherucopsis longifolia Heer, and Czekanowskia 
rigida. | 
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