9 Vol. 59.] FOSSIL FLOEA OF THE CUMBEELAND COALFIELD. 9 



Stigmaeia, Brongniart, 1822. 



' Sur la Classify des Veget. foss.' Mem. Mus. Hist. Nat. vol. viii, p. 209. 



Stigmaeia ficoides (Sternb.). 



Woodwardian Mus. Camb., Carb. Plant Coll. No. 900. 



Locality. — Senhouse High Band, Ellenborough Colliery, Ellenborough. 



Stigmaria ficoides. 



1831-37. Lindley & Hutton, ' Fossil Flora ' vol. i, pis. xxxi-xxxvi & vol. iii, 

 pi. clxvi. 



1886. Kidston, ' Catal. Palaeoz. Plants Brit. Mus.' p. 201. 



1886-88. Zeiller, ' Bassin houill. de Valenciennes ' p. 611 & pi. xci, figs.^ 1-6. 



1887. Williamson, Palaeont. Soc. 'Monoarr. on Stigmaria ficoides'' pis. i-xv. 



1899. Potonie, ' Lebrb. d. Pflanzenpal.' p. 209, figs. 202-203. 



1900. Zeiller, ' Elem. de Paleobot.' p. 200, fig. 139. 



1901. Kidston, Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc. Glasgow, n. s. vol. vi, p. 66, fig. 11. 



Filicales. 



Sphenopteeis, Brongniart, 1822. 



' Sur la Classif. des Veget. foss.' Mem. Mus. Hist. Nat. vol. viii, p. 233. 



Sphenofteeis obtusiloba, Brongb. 



Woodwardian Mus. Camb., Carb. Plant Coll. No. 931. 

 Locality . — Bransty Cliff, Whitehaven. 



Sphenopteris obtusiloba. 



1828. Brongniart, ' Hist, des Veget. foss.' p. 204 & pi. liii, fig. 2*. 

 1886. Kidston, ' Catal. Palteoz. Plants Brit. Mus.' p. 68. 



1886-88. Zeiller, ' Bassin houill. de Valenciennes ' p. 65, pi. iii, figs. 1-4, pi. iv, 

 fig. 1, & pi. v, figs. 1-2. 



1899. Potonie, ' Lehrb. d. Pflanzenpal.' p. 137, fig. 131. 



1900. Zeiller, ' Elem. de Paleobot.' p. 82, fig. 51. 



1901. Kidston, Proc. Yorks. Geol. & Polytechn. Soc. n. s. vol. xiv, pi. xxv, fig. 1. 



Neueopteeis, Brongniart, 1822. 

 ' Sur la Classif. des Veget. foss.' Mem. Mus. Hist. Nat. vol. viii, p. 233. 



1. Netjeopteeis tenuifolia (SchL). 



Woodwardian Mus. Camb., Carb. Plant Coll. Nos. 933, 935-36, & 939-41. 

 Locality.— Bransty Cliff, Whitehaven. 



Filicites tenuifolius. 



1820-23. Schlotheim, ' Petrefactenk.' p. 405 & pi. xxii, fig. 1. 

 Neuropteris tenuifolia. 



1828. Brongniart, ' Hist, des Veget. foss.' p. 241 & pi. lxxii, fig. 3. 



1886-88. Zeiller, ' Bassin houill. de Valenciennes ' p. 273 & pi. xlvi, fig. 1. 



This species is very common in the shaly bands of the lower 

 portion of the Sandstone Series. 



2. Netjeopteeis Schetjchzeei, Hoffm. (PI. I, fig. 1.) 



Woodwardian Mus. Camb., Carb. Plant Coll. No. 934. 

 L o c a 1 i t y— Bransty Cliff, Whitehaven. 

 Neuropteris Sclieuchzeri. 



1886. Kidston, ' Catal. Palseoz. Plants Brit. Mus.' p. 95. 



1886-88. Zeiller, 'Bassin houill. de Valenciennes' p. 251 & pi. xli, figs. 1-3. 



1887. Kidston, Trans. Roy. Soc. Edinb. vol. xxxiii, pt. ii, p. 356 & pi. xxiii, 



figs. 1-2. 

 1899. Zeiller, Mem. Soc. geol. France, Paleont. Mem. No. 21, vol. viii, p. 43 & 

 pi. iv, fig. 9. 



The specimen figured is from the Woodward Collection. It 

 shows a perfect, detached pinnule of a frond. The same species was 

 also found by me in the above locality. 



