27(? 



Be rry — Cretaceous Lycopodium. 



the bracts ami their sporangia in lateral view, the bract being 

 apparently curved upward in fig. 5 while in fig. it is thickened 

 thoughout the laminar portion and turns sharply upward imme- 

 diately beyond the sjwrangium. The hitter is believed to be 

 the normal form, the other being probably due to the method 

 of preservation. The method of attachment of the sporangia 

 cannot be made out; they are in the axils of the bracts, but 

 whether attached to the axis or to the dorsal face of the bract 

 as the drawings would indicate cannot be determined. It is 



Fig. 1. — Lycopodium cretaceum sp. uov. 



1 — Photograph of a large specimen, natural size. 

 2 — Drawing of small specimen, x 5. 

 3— A single bract, x 10. 



4, 5, 6 — Somewhat diagrammatical drawings of bracts and their sporangia, 

 xlO. 



probable that the arrangement is the same as in the modern 

 species, but there is a possibiUty that they were attached to the 

 bract and this possibility is worth mentioning because of the 

 wide interval between the sporangium and the axis in some 

 of the Paleozoic Lycopodiales. 



There is nothing to indicate that these sporangia were not 

 reniform in shape as in the modern Lycopodimn instead of 

 spheroidal as they appear in the fossils ; the character of the 

 base of the bracts would tend to show that they were reniform. 



No remains of foliage which can be correlated with these 

 fruiting spikes has been found in association with them or in 

 beds of homotaxial age elsewhere in South Carolina, so that 

 the vegetative character of the species remains unknown. The 

 species may be called Lycopodium, cretaceum. 



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