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MR ROBERT KIDSTON ON THE FOSSIL PLANTS OF 



Measures of England, and I have examined a number of specimens collected by Mr 

 Hemingway from the same horizon (Barnsley Thick Coal) as that from which the 

 type was derived. 



The plant figured by Zeiller as Sphenopteris polyphylla, L. and H., appears to me 

 to be also referable to Sphenopteris obtusiloba ; in any case it is not the Sphenopteris 

 polyphylla, L. and H., # which is rare in Britain, but the type specimen has fortunately 

 been preserved.! The pinnules are much more obovate than in Sphenopteris obtusiloba, 

 and the terminal pinnule is proportionally larger. Sphenopteris polyphylla has some- 

 what the appearance of an Adiantites. As the original figure of the species represented 

 the plant more dense and heavier in growth than it really is, I refigured the type in 

 1892 in the Proc. Roy. Phys. Soc. Edin., vol. xi. pi. ix. fig. 2. 



(?) Sphenopteris Schiitzei, Stur, sp. 



1885. Hapalopteris Schiitzei, Stur, Fame d. Carbon-Flora d. Scliatz. Schichten, p. 56, pi. xli. figs. 1, 



la, 2, 3, 4. 



1886. (?) Sphenopteris {Hapalopteris) Schidzei, Kidston, Trans. Geol. Soc. Glasgow, vol. viii. p. 57, 



pi. iii. figs. 5, 5a, 5b. 



Locality. — Blinkbonny Pit, Kowanburn. 



Horizon. — Roof of Main Coal. 

 Note. — Only a small fragmentary specimen was found. 



Eremopteris, Schimper. 

 Eremopteris artemisisefolia, Sternb., sp. 



1826. Sphenopteris artemisisefolia, Sternb., Essai flore monde prim., vol. i. fasc. 4, p. xv., pi. liv. fig. 1. 



1828. Sphenopteris artemisisefolia, Brongt., Prodrome, p. 50. 



1829. Sphenopteris artemisisefolia, Brongt., Hist. d. veget. foss., p. 176, pi. xlvi., pi. xlvii. figs. 1-2. 

 1848. Sphenopteris artemisisefolia, Sauveur (pars), Veget. foss. d. terr. houil. Belgique, pi. xx. fig. 3 



(non figs. 1-2). 

 1836. Gleichenites artemisisefolius, Gbpp., Syst. fil. foss., p. 184. 



1869. Eremopteris artemisisefolia, Schimper, TraiU d. paUont. vegtt., vol. i. p. 416, pi. xxx. fig. 5. 

 1879. Eremopteris artemisxfolia, Lesqx., Goal Flora, p. 293, pi. liii. figs. 5-6. 

 1883. Eremopteris artemisisefolia, Lesqx., Indiana Dept. of Geol. and Nat. Hist. 13tk Aim. Rept., 



part ii., Palseont., p. 69, pi. xv. fig. 5. 

 1899. Eremopteris artemisisefolia, Potonie, Lehrb. d. Pflanzenpal., p. 143, fig. 139. 

 1877. Sphenopteris {Eremopteris) artemisisefolia (?), var., Lebour, Illustr. of Fossil Plants, pi. xxxiii. 

 1826. (?) Sphenopteris laxa, Sternb., Essai flore monde prim., fasc. 2, p. 40; fasc. 4, p. xv. pi. xxxi. 



fig. 3. 

 1826. Sphenopteris stricta, Sternb., Essai flore monde prim., vol. i. fasc. 4, p. xv., pi. lvi. fig. 3; vol. ii. 



p. 57. 



* Lindley and Hutton, Fossil Flora, vol. ii., pi. cxlvii., 1835. 

 t In the Collection of the Geological Society, London. 



