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Remarks. — This seed is not common in the Kilmarnock Coal Field. It also occurs in 

 the Lower Coal Measures of Lanarkshire and the Middle Coal Measures of Yorkshire and 

 Dudley. 



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

 Horizon. — Shale over Major Coal. 



Cardiocarpus, Brongniart. 

 Cardiocarpus orbicularis, Ettingshausen. 



Cardiocarpum orbiculare, Ett., SteinTcf. v. Stradonitz, p. 16, pi. vi. fig. 4 (in Abhandl. d. 7c. 7c. geol. 



Reic7isanst, i. Band, 3 Abth,, No. 4, 1852). 

 Cardiocarpus orbicularis, Schimper, Traite d. paleont. veget., vol. ii. p. 224. 



Remarks. — Very rare. Only one specimen has been met with, which is the first 

 British example I have seen. 



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

 Horizon. — Shale over Major Coal. 



TrigonocarpilS, Brongniart. 



Trigonocarpus Parkinsoni, Brongt. 



Trigonocarpum Par7ci?isoni, Brongt., Prodrome, p. 137. 



Trigonocarpus Par7cinsoni, Kidston, Trans. Yor7c. Nat. Union, part xiv., 1890, p. 61. 



Trigonocarpum Noeggeratlii, L. and H. {not Sternb.), Fossil Flora, vol. ii. pi. cxliic. figs. 1-3 ; vol. iii. 



pi. cxciiik figs. 1-4 ; pi. ccxxii. figs. 2-4. 

 Trigonocarpum Noeggerat7ii, Fiedler (not Sternb. ; in part), Die foss. Fruclite, p. 277, pi. xxi. figs. 3a, 3&; 



pi. xxvii. figs. 30, 31 (in Acad. Caisar-Leop.-Carol. Nat. Cur., Band xxvi., Breslau, 1858). 

 CarpolWies alatus, L. and H., Foss. Flora, vol. ii. pi. lxxxvii. ; vol. iii., pi. ccxfr. 

 Rhabdocarpos Naumanni, Geinitz, Flora d. Hainiclien-Ebersdorfer u. Flblirer Koidenb., p. 65, pi. xii. figs. 



17-20 (refsA). 

 Trigonocarpum olivixforme, L. and H., ibid., vol. iii. pi. ccxxii. figs. 1-3. 

 Trigonocarpum olivixforme, Fiedler, ibid., p. 271, pi. xxvii. fig. 28. 

 Carpolit7ies amygdaleeformis, Berger, De fruct. et semin., p. 15, pi. i. fig. 12. 

 Rliabdocarpos amygdalxformis, Berger, ibid., p. 21, pi. i. fig. 12. 



Rhabdocarpos amygdalxformis, Geinitz, Vers. d. Stein7cf. in Sac7isen, p. 42, pi. xxii. figs. 10, 11. 

 Rhabdocarpus Boclcscliianus, Berger, ibid., p. 21, pi. i. figs. 13, 14. 

 Trigonocarpon, Hooker and Binney, Pliil. Trans., vol. cxlv. p. 149, pi. iv., 1855. 

 Parkinson, Organic Remains, vol. i. pi. vii. figs. 6-8, 1804. 

 Martin, Petriftcata Derbiensia, pi. xxi. figs. 1, 2, 3 (? 4), 5, 1809. 



Remarks. — The Carpolithes alatus, L. and H., is merely the Trigonocaryus 

 Parkinsoni, Brongt., enclosed in its pericarp. 

 Locality. — Bonny ton Pit, Kilmarnock. 



Horizon. — Shale over Whistler Seam. 

 Locality. — Stevenston. 



Horizon. — In Sandstone conglomerate roof of f Coal. 



