:A2 MR ROBERT KIDSTON ON 



1891. Lepidophloios and Halonia, Solms-Laubach. Fossil Botany (English 



Translation), p. 210. 



I should have liked to make some long quotations from this author, but must restrict 

 myself to a short epitome of his views. 



He unites Lomotaphloios with Lepidophloios, and regards the leaf-scar in all the 

 species as placed at the base of the cushion. He figures Lepidophloios (Lomatophloios) 

 crassicaidis, Corda (fig. 21), with the leaf-cicatrices at the base of the cushion, thus 

 reversing the position given them by Corda. He also rejects Corda's opinion that it had 

 a Sternbergia pith, believing that he referred this axis to it in error. 



Cyclocladia, Gold, (not L. and H.) (p. 213), he unites to Halonia, and states that it 

 is closely related to Lepidophloios, but does not definitely accept their union. 



I shall again have occasion to refer to this author in regard to the fructification of the 

 genus. 



Fructification. 



Goldenberg* figures on his plate xvi. figs. 7, 9, and 10, certain cones which he refers 

 to Lepidophloios laricinus, but not being attached to their parent stems, their identity 

 with Lepidophloios is very uncertain. 



The same objection may be raised in regard to the cones which Lesquereux ascribed 

 to Lepidophloios. ,t 



That the fructification of Lepidophloios consisted of a cone is shown by the figure of 

 Lepidophloios Scoticus, Kidston (Lepidophloios laricinus, Macfarlane, not Sternb. ), given 

 by Dr Macfarlane,^; for there the cone is still attached to its parent stem, which bears 

 all the characters of the species. 



The small specimen with partially preserved structure from Langendreer, West- 

 phalia, which Weiss supposed to be the cone of Lomatophloios, § has been shown 

 by Seward || to be a small fragment of a branch of Lepidophloios macrolepidotus, 

 Gold. 1 



It probably arises from the mistake that Weiss has made in the interpretation of this 

 specimen that he includes, in his Aus d. Steink (2nd ed., pi. v. fig. 33), a copy of 

 portion of Goldenberg's figure of Lepidophloios macrolepidotum, under the name of 

 Lepidostrobus macrolepidotus. 



Solms-Laubach,* # referring to fossil Lycopodiaceous cones, says : — " Remains of cones 



* Flora samp. foss. 



t Coal Flora, vol. ii. p. 427, pi. lxviii. figs. 6, 7 ; vol. iii. p. 782, pi. cv. fig. 1. 



| Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin., vol. xv. pi. viii. fig. 1. 



\ Weiss, Zeitsch. d. deut. geol. Gesell., vol. xxxiii. p. 354, 1881. 



|| Seward, Proc. Cambridge Phil. Soc, vol. vii., " Notes om Lomatophloios macrolepidotus, Gold." 



IT The specimens figured by Mr Seward, loc. cit., pi. iii., are probably the Lepidophloios acerosus, L. and H., sp. 



** Fossil Botany, p. 235, 1891. 



