FOSSIL FLORA OF THE STAFFORDSHIRE COAL FIELDS. 



93 



Feet. 



Inch 



6 







7 







2 



7 



35 



6 



10 











3 



5 



11 



3 



2 



20 







Surface Earth and Boulder Clay, about 



Marl, about 



" Peacock Goal," (?) 



Marl, 



Howson's Marl, 



" 3" Coal," 



Marl and Shales, . 



" Gutter or Fenton Low Coal" 



Grey and Red Marls, 



90 5 

 The angle of dip is 15°. Although the " 3" Coal" has yielded so many standing- 

 trees in the Eastwood Marl Works, none have been discovered in the Mousecroft Works. 

 The only gathering made was from the top of the underclay of the " Peacock Coal "(?) 

 which yielded the following forms : — 



• Triletes II. (?) 

 „ VII. 

 IX. 



„ XII 



Crustacean and vegetable remains 



Description of New Microspores. 

 Triletes XIX. 



Plate, figs. 9-11. x30. 



Description. — Macrospore small, triangular with dentate margins. Outer surface 

 ornamented with blunt mamillate spiny processes, varying in number from five to eight. 

 On each lateral margin of the spore are usually three or four thickenings or blunt 

 elongated elevations, which extend outwards and produce the dentate margins. Inner 

 surface smooth with a strong triradiate ridge, which extends into the three angles of the 

 spore ; border about \ or ^ width of spore, undulate. 



Size. — 1'45 mm. 



Middle Coal Measures. 



Horizon and Locality. — Eastwood Marl Works. Hanley. 



Triletes XX. 



Plate, figs. 5-8. x 30. 



Description. — Macrospore small, triangular, bordered with produced angular points and 

 convex sides. Outer surface granulated, and generally showing the circular body of the spore 

 surrounded by its triangular border. Inner surface. — Triradiate ridge strong, prominent, 



