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Sphenopteris Footneri, Marrat. 



Sphenopteris Footneri, Marrat, Proc. Liverpool Geol. Soc, Session 1871-72, p. 101, pi. viii. figs. 2, 3, 



1872. 

 Sphenopteris Footneri, Kidston, Trans. Roy. Soc. Edin., vol. xxxv. p. 406, pi. ii. fig. 3. 



Locality. — No. 3 Pit, Springhill, Crosshouse. 



Horizons. — Shale over Major Coal. Pavement under Tourha' Coal. 



Sphenopteris Sternbergii, Ett., sp. 



Sphenopteris Sternbergii, Weiss, Aus. d. Steink., p. 13, pi. xii. fig. 75, 1882. 



Sphenopteris Sternbergii, Zeiller, Flore foss. d. bassin houil. d. Valen., p. 128, pi. ix. fig. 5 ; pi. xxxviii. 



% 6. 

 Pecopteris Sternbergii, Boulay, Terr, houil. du nord de la France, p. 32, pi. ii. fig. 4. 

 Asplenites Sternbergii, Ett., Steinkf. v. Radnitz, p. 42, pi. xx. figs. 2, 3, (and part of) 4. 



Remarks. — Very rare, only one small specimen having been found. This species I 

 have not seen from the Lower Coal Measures before. It is not a common plant in Britain, 

 but occurs in the Middle Coal Measures of Yorkshire, Derbyshire, and Lancashire, and in 

 the Forest of Wyre, on the borders of Shropshire and "Worcestershire, but is in all these 

 localities a rare plaDt. 



Locality. — Busbie Pit, Kilmaurs. 



Horizon. — Two fathoms below Ell Coal. 



Mariopteris, Zeiller. 

 Mariopteris muricata, Schloth., sp. 



Mariopteris muricata, Zeiller, Bull. Soc. Geol. d. France, 3 9 s6r., vol. vii. p. 92. 

 Mariopteris muricata, Zeiller, Veget foss. d. terr. houil., p. 71, pi. clxvii. fig. 5. 

 Mariopteris muricata, Zeiller, Flore foss. d. bassin houil. d. Valen., p. 173, pi. xx. figs. 1-4 ; pi. xxi. fig. 1 ; 



pi. xxii. figs. 1, 2 ; pi. xxiii. fig. 1. 

 Pecopteris muricata, Brongt., Hist. d. veget foss., p. 352, pi. xcv. figs. 3, 4; pL xcvii. 

 Pecopteris muricata, Heer, Flora foss. Helv., Lief i. p. 33, pi. xv. fig. 3. 



Pecopteris muricata, Sauveur, Veget. foss. d. terr. houil. Belgique, pi. xliii. fig. 1 ; pi. xliv. fig. 2. 

 Alethopteris muricata, Ett., Steinkohlf. v. Radnitz, p. 43, pi. xiv. fig. 1. 

 Alethopteris muricata, Roehl, Foss. Flora d. Steink.-Form. Westph., p. 78, pi. xi. fig. 1. 

 Sphenopteris muricata, Feistmantel, Vers. d. bbhm. Kohleuab., p. 281, pi. lxv. fig. 3. (Excl. syn. Sph. 



acutifolia.) 

 Diplothmema muricatum, Stur, Curb. Flora, vol. i. p. 393, pi. xxi. figs. 1-5 ; pi. xxii. figs. 1-5 ; pi. xxiii. 



figs. 1-6. 

 Filicites muricalus, Schloth., Petrefactenkunde, p. 409. 



(Filicites muricatus), Schloth., Flora d. Vorwelt, pp. 54, 55, pi. xii. figs. 21 and 23. 

 Pseudopecopteris muricata, Lesqx., Coal Flora, vol. i. p. 203, pi. xxxvii. fig. 2. 

 Pecopteris laciniata, L. and H., Fossil Flora, vol, ii. pi. cxxii. 

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