786 MR ROBERT KIDSTON ON THE FOSSIL PLANTS OF 



Feistmantel also gives a figure of Sphenopteris Hceninghausi which is probably 

 referable to this species, but if so, the figure is not quite satisfactory.* The same 

 remark may be made regarding the figure given by GEiNiTZ.t His enlargement is a 

 somewhat inaccurate copy of Brongniart's, pi. lii. fig. a. 



The Sphenopteris Hceninghausi, Feistmantel, \ is probably referable to the 

 Sphenopteris bermudensiformis, Schl., sp. ( — Sphenopteris distans, Sternb.). 



Potonie [| has proposed the union of Calymmotheca Stangeri, Stur, Calymmotheca 

 Larischi, Stur, Calymmotheca Schlehani, Stur, and Calymmotheca Rothschildi, Stur, § 

 with Sphenopteris Hceninghausi, treating them as varieties of Brongniart's species. 

 This view I am unable to accept, as Stur's species appear to me to be essentially distinct 

 from Brongniart's Sphenopteris Hceninghausi. 



The fern figured under the name of Sphenopteris Hceninghausi by Lindley and 

 Hutton IF is specifically distinct from Brongniart's plant, and for it I have proposed the 

 name of Sphenopteris ejfusa.** The specimen figured by Lindley and Hutton is 

 preserved in the Hutton Collection in the museum, Newcastle-on-Tyne. 



The specimens on which Sphenopteris Hceninghausi, Brongt., is here recorded were 

 received from the late Mr Hugh Miller, F.R.S.E., some years after the publication of 

 my earlier " Report on the Fossil Plants collected by the Geological Survey of 

 Scotland in Eskdale and Liddesdale." tt They bear the date of April 1869, and are 

 merely localised "Byre Burn." 



Locality. — Byre Burn. 



Sphenopteris multifida, L. and H. 



1834. Sphenopteris multifida, L and H., Fossil Flora, vol. ii. p. 113, pi. cxxiii. 



Locality A. 



Pecopteris, Brongniart, 



Pecopteris, sp. 

 Locality D. 



Mariopteris, Zeiller. 



Mariopteris muricata, Schlotheim, sp. 



Mariopteris muricata, Schl., sp. See ante, p. 771. 

 Locality A. 



* Vers. d. bbhm. Ablager., Abth. iii. p. 57, pi. xvi. fig. 2, 1876. 



t Vers. d. Steinkf. in Sachsen, pi. xxiii. figs. 5-6. 



J Zeitsch. d. dent. geol. Gesell., vol. xxv. pi. xiv. fig. 7. 



§ All described in Culm Flora, vol. ii. 1877. 



|| Ueber einige Garbonfarne, ii. Theil, Jahrb. d. Kbnig. preuss. geol. Landesanstalt fur 1890, p. 16, pis. vii.-ix., 

 1891. 



11 Fossil Flora, vol. iii. pi. cciv. 

 ** Catal. Palceoz. Plants, p. 71, 1886. 

 tt Trans. Roy. Soc. Ed.in., vol. xxx. p. 531, 1883. 



