342 MR ROBERT KIDSTON ON THE FOSSIL PLANTS OF THE 



stem of the cone is straight and rigid, and evidently did not depend from the branch to 

 which it was attached, and the bracts are also of a quite different form from those described 

 by Dawson. Also, from the nature of the stalk of my specimen, it does not appear to have 

 been a cone terminating a branch. I am therefore inclined to regard it as having been 

 produced from the side of a stem. Taking all these points into consideration, it has 

 suggested itself to me that perhaps in Lepidostrobus (?) spinosus we may have the cone 

 of Sigillaria and not the cone of a Lepidodendron, and therefore I have inserted an (?) 

 after the genus in which I provisionally place it, for Lepidostrobus is generally 

 supposed to include only cones of Lepidodendron, though it is by no means certain 

 that all the members enrolled in it are really the fructifications of that genus. 

 Locality. — Bonnyton Pit, Kilmarnock. 

 Horizon. — Shale over Whistler Coal. 



Lepidostrobus Geinitzii, Schimper. 



Lepidostrobus Geinitzii, Schimper, Traite d. paleont. veget., vol. ii. p. 62 (1 pi. lxL figs. 6, 7). (Exd. syn. 



L. comosus, L. and H.) 

 Lepidostrobus Geinitzii, Zeiller, Flore foss. d. bassin houiL.d. Valen., p. 501, pi. lxxvi. fig. 2. 

 Lepidostrobus variabilis, Geinitz (notL. and. H.), Vers. d. Steinkf. in Sachsen, p. 50, pi. ii. figs. 1, 3, 4. 

 Lepidostrobus variabilis, Eoehl (not L. and H. ; in part), Foss. Flora d. Steink-Form. Westph., p. 142, 



pi. vii. fig. 2. 

 Lepidostrobus variabilis, Feistmantel (not L. and H. ; in part), Vers d. bolim. Kohlenab., part ii. p. 44, 



pi. xiv., pi. xv. figs. 1, 2. 



Note. — This cone is rare. 

 Locality. — Busbie Pit, Kilmaurs. 



Horizon. — Two fathoms below Ell Coal. 



Lepidostrobus squarrosus, Kidston, n.sp. 

 (Plate IV. figs. 13, 13a, and 14.) 



Lepidostrobus variabilis, Schimper (not L. and H.), Traite d. paleont. veget., vol. ii. p. 61, pi. lzf. 



figs. 1, 2. 

 Lepidostrobus variabilis, Zeiller (not L. and H.), Flore foss. d. bassin houil. d. Valen., p. 499, pi. lxxvi. 



fig. 3 (? fig. 4). 



Remarks. — The cone I here name Lepidostrobus squarrosus is similar to that placed 

 under the name of Lepidostrobus variabilis by Schimper and Zeiller. While recog- 

 nising that very wide limits must be given to cones included under Lepidostrobus 

 variabilis, I do not think it possible to include that figured by Schimper and Zeiller, 

 and the one given on my Plate IV. fig. 13, under that species. 



