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This is the only British example of Sphenopteris Schilling si Andrae which has 

 come under my notice. 



Horizon and Locality. — Ten-foot Ironstone Measures: Cabbage Hall Pits, 

 NethertOD. 



Collected by Mr H. W. Hughes, F.G.S. 



Sphenopteris furcata Brongt. 



1829. Sphenopteris furcata, Brongt., Hist. d. veget.foss., p. 179, pi. xlix. figs. 4-5. 



1885. Diplothmerna furcatum, Stur, Carbon-Flora d. Schatz. Schichten : Die Fame, p. 299, pi. xxviii. 



figs. 2, 3. 

 1892. Palmatopteris furcata, Potonie, " Ueber einige Carbon fame," part iii. p. 1, pi. i. ; text-fig. 1, p. 5 

 (Jahrb. d. kbnigl. preuss. geol. Landesanstalt fur 1891). 



Horizons and Localities. — 



Roof of Thick Coal: Bradley Colliery, Bilston. 



Ten-foot Ironstone Measures : Clayscroft OpenwcJrk, Coseley, near Dudley. 



Immediately below Bottom Coal : Euiton, near Sedgley. 



Sphenopteris spinosa Gopp. 



1842. Sphenopteris spinosa, Gopp., Genre d. plant, foss., parts iii.-iv. p. 70, pi. xii. 



1886. ,, „ Zeiller, Flore foss. d. bassin houil. d. Valen., p. 135, pi. xv. figs. 1-3 



1880. ,, ,, Crdpin, Bull. Soc. roy. de botan. de Belgique, vol. xix. part ii. p. 13. 

 1877. Diplothmerna spinosum, Stur, Culm-Flora, vol. ii. p. 230. 



1885. ,, „ Stur, Carbon-Flora d. Schatz. Schichten: Die Fame, p. 312, pi. xxviii. 



figs. 7, 8. 

 1869. Sphenopteris palmata, Sehimper, Traite d. paleont. veget., vol. i. p. 388, pi. xxviii. fig. 1. 

 1877. Diplothmerna palmatum, Stur, Culm-Flora, veil. ii. p. 230. 



1885. ,, ,, Stur, Carbon-Flora d. Schatz. Schichten: Die Fame, p. 310, pi. xxvii. 



fig. 3. 

 1904. Palmatopteris furcata, Potonie (non Brongt.) (pars), Abbild. u. Beschreib. foss. Pflanzen, Lief. 2, 

 No. 21, fig. 4 and plate. 



Remarks. — Only one specimen of this species has been collected by Mr Hknry 

 Insley. 



Horizon and Locality. — Blue Measures, six feet above Brooch Coal: Hamstead 

 Colliery, Great Barr, near Birmingham. 



Sphenopteris artemisisefolioides Crepin. 



1881. Sphenopteris artemisisefolioides, Crepin, in Mourlon, Geol. de la Belgique, vol. ii. p. 60. 



1886. ., ,. Zeiller, Flore foss. bassin houil. d. Valen., p. 132, pi. xiv. 



figs. 2, 3.' 

 1910. „ ,, Renier, Paleont. du terr. houil , pi. lxxii. figs, a, b. 



1848. Sphenopteris artemisixfolia, Sanveur (non Sternb.), Veget.foss. terr. houil. de la Belgique, pi. xx. 



figs. 1, 2 (non fig. 3). 

 1876. Eremopteris artemisixfolia, Boulay, Terr, houil. du Nord de la France, pp. 28, 73, pi. i. fig. 6. 



1849. Sphenopteris stricta, Sauveur (non Sternb.), ibid., pi. xix. fig. 1. 



