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Stigmaria ficoides, Sternb., sp., var. reticulata, Gdpp. 



Stigmaria ficoides, var. reticulata, Gopp., Gatt. d. foss. Pflanzen, Lief 1, 2, p. 30, pi. ix. fig. 11. 

 Stigmaria ficoides, var. reticulata, Zeiller, Flore foss. de bassin houil. d. Valen., p. 612, pi. xci. fig. 5. 

 Stigmaria anabathra, Goldenberg {in part), Flora Sar&pont. foss., Heft iii. p. 19, pi. xiii. fig. 15. 



Note. — This variety is not so common as the type. 

 Locality. — Annandale Colliery, Kilmarnock. 



Horizon. — Shale over Splint Coal. 

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



Horizon. — Shale over Major Coal. 

 Locality. — No. 4 Pit, Springhill, Crosshouse. 



Horizon. — Shale over M'Naught Coal. 



Stigmaria stellata, Gopp. 



Stigmaria stellata, Williamson, Palxont. Soc, 1887, p. 40, pL xiii. fig. 78. 



Stigmaria stellata, Eichwald, Lethsea Rossica, vol. i. p. 206, pi. xv. fig. 2, 1860. 



Stigmaria ficoides, var. stellata, Gopp., Gatt. d. foss. Pflanzen, Lief 1, 2, p. 13, pi. x. fig. 12, 1841. 



Stigmaria ficoides, var. stellata, Lesqx., Coal Flora, p. 515, pi. lxxiv. fig. 4. 



Stigmaria anabathra, var. stellata, Goldenberg, Flora Sarxpont. foss., Heft iii. p. 19, pi. xiii. fig. 14. 



Remarks. — This species does not belong to the flora of the Coal Measures, though 

 several specimens have been found in the district under consideration. The specimens 

 have, however, all been discovered in the drift, and I have no doubt have been derived 

 from the Lower Carboniferous Kocks of the neighbourhood, for only on that horizon 

 have I ever seen the species in situ. 



Localities. — Burntwood Mains and Bent, Galston. Collected by Mr P. Wright, 

 Galston. All from the drift. 



v o Cordaitese. 



The Cordaites were divided by Grand' Eury into the three following groups : *- 



I. Cordaites (or Eucordaites). 



II. DORYCORDAITES. 

 III. POACORDAITES. 



To these, Eenault and Zeiller t have added a fourth group — 



IV. Scutocordaites. 

 These groups are characterised by the form and nervation of the leaves. 



* Flore Carbon, d. Depart, de la Loire, &c, pp. 208, 214, 222, 1877. 

 t Cornptes Rcndus, March 23, 1885. 



