FOSSIL FLORA OF THE STAFFORDSHIRE COAL FIELDS. 79 



Upper Coal Measures. 



Horizon and Locality. — About 300 yards above horizon of Bassy Mine Ironstone. 



Railway Cutting, Florence Colliery, Longton. 



forma cyathea. 



Horizon and Locality. — About 300 yards above horizon of Bassy Mine Ironstone. 



Bradwell Wood, Longport. 



Pecopteris Miltoni, Artis, sp. 



Filicites Miltoni, Artis., Antedil. Phyt., pi. xiv. 



Pecopteris Miltoni, Germar., Vers. v. Wettin. v. Lobejun., p. 63; pi. xxvii. (Excl. syn. P. polymorplia, and 



P. Miltoni, Brongt. (not Artis). 

 Pecopteris Miltoni, Kidston, Trans. Roy. Soc. Edin., vol. xxxiii. p. 374. 

 Pecopteris abbreviata, Brongt., Hist. d. veget. foss., p. 337, pi. cxv. figs. 1-4. 



Pecopteris abbreviata, Zeiller, Notes sur laflorehouil. d. Asturies, p. 12 (Mem. Soc. Geol. du Nord., 1882). 

 Pecopteris abbreviata, Zeiller, Flore foss. d. bassin. houil. d. Valenciennes, p. 186, pi. xxiv. fig. 1-4. 



Middle Coal Measures. 



Horizon and Locality. — About horizon of Bassy Mine Ironstone. Railway Tunnel, 



Newcastle-under-Lyme. 

 ,, „ Shales over Peacock Marl. Longton. 



Pecopteris caudata, L. and H., sp. 



Sphenopteris caudata, L. and H. Fossil Flora, vol. i. pi. xlviii. 



Remarks. — I have received from Mr Ward a specimen of this fern from below the 

 New Mine Coal, Adderley Green, which agrees entirely with the Sphenopteris caudata, 

 L. and H., but think it probable that this latter species should be referred to Pecopteris 

 plumosa, Artis, sp. 



As I am at present collecting specimens of this and some close allies, with the object 

 of submitting them to a careful examination, I at present merely record the Staffordshire 

 plant under the name originally given it by Lindley and Hutton. 



Lower Coal Measures (Lower Thick Series). 

 Horizon and Locality. — Below the New Mine Coal.* Adderley Green. 



Alethopteris, Stemb. 

 Alethopteris aquilina, Schloth.,sp. 



Alethopteris aquilina, Schimper, Traite d. paleont. veget., vol. i. p. 556, pi. xxx. figs. 8-10. 



Pecopteris aquilina, Brongt., Hist. d. veget. foss., p. 284, pi. xc. 



Filicites aquilinus, Schloth., Flora d. Vorwelt., p. 38, pi. iv. fig. 7; pi. v. fig. 8. 



* This is the uppermost seam in the Lower Coal Measures, see note, ante, p. 73. 

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