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discovered, but, from the examination of the figures given by Lindley and Hutton, and 

 other specimens of the species in the " Hutton Collection," their plant is clearly shown 

 to be a Lepidophloios. 



The type of Lepidostrobus pinaster, L. and H.,* is preserved in the "Hutton 

 Collection," Newcastle-on-Tyne. The leaf-scars are well preserved on this example, and 

 the two lateral and central cicatricules are well seen. The supposed bracts that spring 

 from the Lepidostrobus pinaster (which is drawn upside down, as shown by my fig. 1 ) are 

 not organic, but splinters in the matrix. The original is quite unlike a cone, and 

 it is difficult to conceive how such a figure of the fossil could have been produced. 



I do not see any point by which Lepidophloios crassicaulis, Corda, can be separated 

 from Lepidophloios acerosus. A comparison of the figures given by Sternberg under 

 the name of Cycadites Cordai, in his vol. ii. pi. lv., especially his fig. 3, and that given 

 by Corda on his pL i. fig. 2, with the Lepidophloios acerosus, L. and H., sp., prove the 

 identity of the species. 



The Lepidodendron dichotomum, Roehl {not Sternb.), perhaps belongs to Lepido- 

 phloios acerosus ; it differs in the leaf-scar having four cicatricules, which, however, is 

 most probably an error of the draughtsman, and should have no importance attached to 

 it. The leaves, however, are very long and narrow, whereas on the specimen which I 

 give on PL I. fig. 1, which shows the termination of a branch, they are much broader and 

 shorter, and in fact seem very similar to the Lepidophyllum majus, Brongt. 



Several specimens which I believe to be referable to Lepidophloios acerosus have 

 been figured under the names of Lepidophloios laricinus and Lepidophloios macrolepi- 

 dotus. 



Lepidophloios acerosus, L. and H., sp., is widely distributed in the Middle and Lower 



Coal Measures. 



Middle Coal Measures. 

 England : — 



Lancashire. — St. Helens. Hor. Ravenhead Coals. 



Shropshire. — Highley Colliery, 6^ miles south of Bridgenorth. Hor. Above 



Brooch Coal. (J. Rhodes.) 

 Yorkshire. — Parkhill Col., near Wakefield. Hor. Stanley Main Coal. 



„ Woolley Col., Darton, near Barnsley. Hor. Barnsley Thick Coal. 



„ Monckton Main Col., near Barnsley. Hor. Barnsley Thick Coal. 



„ East Gawber Col., near Barnsley. Hor. Barnsley Thick Coal. 



,, Cooper's Col., Worsborough Dale, near Barnsley. Hor. Barnsley 



Thick Coal. 

 „ South Kirby Col., near Pontefract. Hor. Barnsley Thick Coal. 



(W. Hermingway.) 

 South Wales Coal Field. — Abersychan, near Pontypool. Hor. Soap Vein (Lower 

 Pennant Series). 



* Vol. iii. pi. cxcviii. 



