88 DR ROBERT KIDSTON ON THE 



which narrow more upwards, and by its sharp-pointed segments, which are also much 

 more seldom bifid. The surface of the pinnules is also smooth, not roughened as in Sphen- 

 opteris Kilimlii, though imperfect states of preservation may not show this character. 



It has been pointed out by Behrend * and GoTHANt that the plant named 

 Hapalopteris Aschenborni by Stur \ is identical with his Ifapalopteris (Sphenopteris) 

 Schatzlarensis in part§ — a conclusion with which 1 agree. 



The plant described here is not the Sphenopteris Aschenborni Stur, sp., which is 

 synonymous with Splienopteris Schatzlarensis Stur (pars), but the Sphenopteris 

 Aschenborni Zeiller (non Stur). It is therefore necessary to give a new name to this 

 species, and I propose to distinguish it as Sphenopteris Kilimlii, from the locality at 

 which it was originally discovered. 



My thanks are due to Mr H. W. Hughes, F.G-.S., for specimens of this species, 

 which has hitherto only been collected at Kilimli. 



Horizon and Locality. — Blue Measures, six feet above Fireclay Coal: Doul ton's 

 Clay Pit, Netherton, near Dudley. 



Sphenopteris Waited Stur, sp. 



1885. Calymmotheca Walteri, Stur, Carbon-Flora der ScJiatzlarer Schichten : Die Fame, p. 263, 



pi. xxxvi. fig. 4. 

 1893. Palmatopteris Waited, Potonie, " Ueber einige Carbonfarne," iv. Theil, Jahrb. d. kbnigl. 

 preuss. geol. Landesanstalt fur 1892, p. 8, pi. iii. 



Remarks. — Apparently rare, but found at Hamstead by Mr H. Insley and at 

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



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

 Colliery, Great Barr, near Birmingham ; Jubilee Pit, Sandwell Park, West Bromwich. 



Sphenopteris Souichi Zeiller. 



1886. Sphenopteris Souichi, Zeiller, Flore foss. bassin houil. d. Valen., p. 110, pi. vii. figs. 2, 2a, 2b, 



pi. ix. figs. 3, 3a, 3b. 



Remarks.— I am indebted to Dr Wheelton Hind for an example of this species. 

 The fossil is preserved in an ironstone nodule, and, as it is somewhat fragmentary, the 

 specimen was forwarded to Dr Zeiller, who has kindly compared it with the type, 

 with which he says it agrees perfectly. 



Sphenopteris Souichi has not previously been recorded for Britain. 



Horizon and Locality. — Ten foot Ironstone Measures: Clayscroft Openwork, 

 Coseley, near Dudley. 



* Uber einige Carbonfarne aus der Familie der Sphenopteriden : Inaugural Dissertation, p. 37, 1908. 



t Gothan, "Die Oberschlesische Steinkohlenfiora. I. Theil: Fame und famahnliche Gewachse," p. 139, 

 Abhandl. d. konig. preuss. geol. Landesanstalt, neue Folge, Heft 75, 1913. 



\ Fame d. Carbon-Flora d. Schatzlarer Schichten, p. 58, pi. xxxix. fig. 6, text-fig. 12a, b, 1885. 



5; Stur, Carbon-Flora d. Schatzlarer Schichten: Die Fame, p. 58, pi. xxxix. figs. 7, la ; pi. xl. figs. 2-6 (not fig. 1, 

 1885). 



