FOSSIL FLORA OF THE STAFFORDSHIRE COAL FIELDS. 91 



Note. — Frequent. 

 Horizons and Localities. — 



Roof of Brooch Coal: Pensnett. 



Ten-foot Ironstone Measures : Clayscroft Openwork, Coseley, near Dudley ; 

 Ettingshall. 



Roof of Thick Coal : Bradley Colliery, Bilston. 



Roof of Fireclay Coal : Doulton's Clay Pit, Netherton. 



Between Fireclay Coal and Bottom Coal : Doulton's Clay Pit, Netherton. 



Immediately below Bottom Coal : Kuiton, near Sedgley. 



Crossotheca Hughesiana Kidston. 



1906. Crossotheca Hughesiana, Kidston, Phil. Trans., ser. B, vol. cxcviii. p. 424, pis. xxvii.-xxviii. 



Horizon and Locality. — Ten-foot Ironstone Measures ( = Roof of Thick Coal): 

 Clayscroft Openwork, Coseley, near Dudley. 



Crossotheca Crepini Zeiller. 



1883. Crossotheca Crepini, Zeiller, Ann. d. Soc. not., 6 e s^r., Bot., vol. xvi. p. 181, pi. ix. figs. 1-9. 

 1886. Sphenopteris (Crossotheca) Crepini, Zeiller, Flore foss. bassin houil. d. Valen., p. 112, pi. xiii. 



figs. 1-3; text-fig. 21, p. 33. 

 1910. Sphenopteris (Crossotheca) Crepini, Schmitz, in Renier, Paleontologie, pi. Ixviii. 

 1883. Sorotheca Crepini, Stur, Zur Morph. u. Syst. d. Culm- u. Carbonfarne, p. 175 (text-fig. 39 



not good). 

 1885. Sorotheca Crepini, Stur, Carbon-Flora d. Schatz. Schichten : Die Fame, p. 275, pi. xxxiii. figs. 1 



and 2, pi. xxxv. figs. 3-4 (text-fig. 43, p. 273, not good). 



Remarks. — This species, which has not previously been recorded from Britain, has 

 been collected by Mr H. W. Hughes at Grets Green and by Mr H. Insley at 

 Hamstead. 



Horizon and Localities. — 



Blue Measures, six feet above Brooch Coal : Hamstead Colliery, Great Barr, 



near Birmingham. 

 Roof of Brooch Coal : Grets Green, near West Bromwich. 



Sphyropteris Stur. 

 Sphyropteris obliqua Marrat, sp. 



1872. Sphenopteris obliqua, Marrat, in Higgins, Proc. Liverpool Geol. Soc, Session 13, 1871-1872, 



p. 99, pi. ix. figs. 3, 3a. 

 1889. Sphyropteris obliqua, Kidston, Trans. Roy. Soc. Edin., vol. xxxv. p. 402, pi. i. figs. 3, 3a-3a\ 

 1883. Sphyropteris Crepini, Stur, Die Fame: Carbon-Flora d. Schatzlarer Schicht., p. 18, pi. xxxix. 



figs. 1, la; text-fig. 6a, p. 16. 



