818 MR ROBERT KIDSTON ON THE FOSSIL PLANTS OF 



Rhodea dissecta, Brongt., sp. 



1839. Sphenopteris dissecta, Brongt., Hist. d. veget. foss., p. 183, pi. xlix. figs. 2-3. 

 1877. Diplothmema dissedum, Stur, Culm Flora, Heft ii. p. 230. 



1899. Diplothmema dissedum, Zeiller, Etude sur laflore foss. du bassin houil. oVHeraclee, p. 30, pi. iii. 



fig. 2. 



1900. Diplothmema dissedum, Zeiller, Elements d. paleobotanique, p. 87, fig. 58. 

 1899. Rhodea disseda, Potonie, Lehrb. d. Pflanzenpalseont., p. 135, fig. 125. 



1899. Rhodea disseda, Freeh, Letheea geog., i. Theil, Lethma palseoz., 2 Band, 2 Lief., Die Steinkohlen- 



form., pi. xxxvii.fr fig. 5, and explanation to figure. 

 1877. Diplothmema Sdiiitzei, Stur, Culm Flora, Heft ii. p. 234, pi. xxx. figs. 4 a, b, c, d, e,f. 



1888. Diplothmema Schiitzei, Toula, Die Steinkohlen, p. 187, pi. i. fig. 10. 



Locality. — Shore at Pit open water-level, Spittal, Tweedmouth, Northumberland. 

 Horizon. — Carbonaceous group = Scremerston group. 



Rhodea patentissima, Ettingshausen, sp. 



1865. Hymenophyllites patentissima, Ett., Foss. Flora d. Mdhr.-Sddes. Dachschiefers, p. 26, fig. 13, pi. 



vii. fig. 4. 

 1869. Sphenopteris {Hymen.) patentissima, Schimper, Traite d. paleont. veget., vol i. p. 407. 



1900. (?) Sphenopteris patentissima, White, Stratigraphic Succession of the Fossil Floras of the Pottsville 



Formation in the Southern Anthracite Coal Field, Pennsylvania (20th Ann. Rept. U.S. Geol. 

 Survey, part ii., Geol. and Paleeont.), p. 880, pi. clxxxviii. fig. 1. 

 1875. Rhodea patentissima, Stur, Culm Flora, Heft 1, p. 36, pi. ix. figs. 1-9. 



Note. — Only a single specimen has been met with, and, though small, is sufficiently 

 well preserved to permit of a satisfactory determination. 



Locality. — Kirk Beck, White Line, Bewcastle, Cumberland. 

 Horizon. — Cementstone series. 



Rhacopteris, Schimper. 



Rhacopteris flabellata, Tate, sp. 



1853. Sphenopteris flabellata, Tate, in Johnston, Nat. Hist, of the Eastern Borders, vol. i., Botany, p. 308, 



fig. 3. 

 1886. Rhacopteris flabellata, Kidston, Catal. Palseoz. Plants Brit. Mus., p. 63. 



1889. Rhacopteris flabellata, Kidston, Trans. Roy. Soc. Edin., vol. xxxv. p. 442, pi. i. fig. 2, pi. ii. figs. 



4-6 (? fig. 7). 

 1865. Noeggerathia, sp., Gomes, Flora foss. do terr. carbon, das visin. do Porto, Serra do Bussaco, etc., p. 

 32, pi. ii. figs. 1-2 (Commissas geol. de Portugal). 



Locality. — Budle, Northumberland (" In shale," Tate). 



Horizon. — Top of Calciferous Sandstone series = Oil Shale group of Midlothian. 



Rhacopteris subcuneata, Kidston. 



1894. Rhacojrteris subcuneata, Kidston, Proc. Roy. Phys. Soc. Edin., vol. xii. p. 261, -pi. v. fig. 2, pi. vi. 

 fig. 1. 



