COLLECTED IN ESKDALE AND LIDDESDALE. 539 
Position and Locality —¥rom the Cement-stone group of the Calciferous 
Sandstone series, Glencartholm, Eskdale. 
Sphenopteris, sp. 
Remarks.—Among the collection are a few Sphenopteroids, which, though 
too imperfect for identification, are, I believe, distinct from any already 
mentioned. 
Position and Localities.—From the Cement-stone group of the Calciferous 
Sandstone series, at Glencartholm ; Docken Beck and foot of Tarras Water, 
Eskdale; and Liddle Water, Newcastleton, Liddesdale. 
Staphylopteris, Presl. (Lesq. 1870).* 
Sorocladus, Lesq., 1880.+ 
Staphylopteris Peachii, Balfour. 
Staphylopteris Peachti, Balfour, Bot. Soc. Ed., vol. xii. p. 176. 
5 » OC. W. Peach, Quar. Jour. Geo. Soc., vol. xxxiv. pl. viii. p. 133. 
Plate XX XI. fig. 6. 
Several specimens of this fossil have been obtained. It is extremely pro- 
bable that the original specimens, on which the species was founded, belong to 
Sphenopteris linearis, Brongu., as this fern, and it alone, most frequently occurs 
on the same slab. Hence I include Staphylopteris Peachit among the Sphenop- 
teroids. Through the kindness of Mr. C. W. Pracu, I have been enabled to 
compare the Eskdale specimens with the original plants in his cabinet, and 
though on an average they are slightly larger, place them in the same species, 
as the types vary in size among themselves. 
In deference to the opinion of certain geologists, who object to the genus 
Staphylopteris being used for the reception of “ fructifications of ferns,” other 
than Tertiary species, LEsquEREUX has proposed the name Sorocladus, in which 
to include the Carboniferous forms. Under this name he places species whose 
“sori have various forms,” and presumably belonging to distinct genera. As 
both these names are at the best of a most provisional nature, the constitution 
of a new genus, whose only character requires that the specimens be Carboni- 
Jerous, appears to possess no advantage over the older name, hence I retain the 
original name Stuphylopteris for these fossils. 
Position and Locality.—From the Cement-stone group of the Calciferous 
Sandstone series, Glencartholm, Eskdale. 
* Geo. Sur. of Iilin., vol. iv. + Coal Flora of Pennsyl. and U. 8. 
{+ I differ from Mr. C. W. Psacu in the identification of his Sph. affinis, and prefer calling the form 
which occurs on the slabs with Staphylopteris Peachii, Sph. linearis. What I regard as Sph. affinis 
differs from S, linearis in having much smaller pinnules. It is most likely that these two ferns should 
form only one species, and, at the most, S. affinis be regarded as a variety of S, linearis. 
VoL. XXX. PART IL. 4p 
