FOSSIL FLORA OF THE STAFFORDSHIRE COAL FIELDS. 95 



Eremopteris Schimper. 

 Eremopteris artemisiaefolia Sternb., sp. 



1826. Sphenopteris artemisieefolia, Sternb., Essai flore monde prim., vol. i. fasc. iv. p. xv. pi. liv. fig. 1. 

 1829. „ „ Brongt., Hist. d. veget. foss., p. 176, pi. xlvi., pi. xlvii. figs. 1, 2. 



1869. Eremopteris artemisixfolia, Schimper, Traite d. paleont. veget., vol. i. p. 416, pi. xxx. fig. 5. 

 1877. Sphenopteris (Eremopteris) artemisixfolia, (?) var. Lebour, Illustr. of Fossil Plants, pi. xxxiii. 

 1826. Sphenopteris stricta, Sternb., Essai flore monde prim., vol. i. fasc. iv. p. xv, pi. lvi. fig. 3; vol. ii. 



p. 57. 

 1829. ,, ,, Brongt., Hist. d. veget. foss., p. 208, pi. xlviii. fig. 2. 



1832. Sphenopteris crithmifolia, L. & H., Fossil Flora, vol. i., pi. xlvi. 

 1877. Sphenopteris sp., Lebour, Illustr. of Fossil Plants, pis. xxxiv., xxxv., xxxvi. 

 Asplenioides obtusum, Konig, Icones foss. sectiles, pi. xvi. fig. 199. 



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

 Clay Pit, Netherton. 



Adiantites Goppert. 

 Adiantites sessilis Roehl, pro. var. 



1869. Cyclopteris oblongifolia, Gopp., var. sessilis, Roehl, Foss. Flora Steink.-Form. Westphal., p. 45, 



pi. xvi. figs. 1 and la. 

 1899. Adiantites sessilis, Potonie, Lehrb. d. Pflanzenpal., p. 129, fig. 116. 



Remarks. — Of this species I have only seen two British specimens — that noted here, 

 and one from Adderley Green, Longton, North Staffordshire, from " below the Bowling- 

 alley Rock," which was received from the late Mr John Ward, F.G.S. 



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

 Coseley, near Dudley. Collected by Mr H. W. Hughes. 



Archseopteris Dawson. 



Archeeopteris Reussi Ettingshausen, sp. 

 PL V. figs. 7 and 7a. 



1852. Asplenites Reussii, Ett., "Steinkf. v. Stradonitz in Bohmen," Abhandl. d. h. geol. Eeichsanst., 



I., Band iii. Abth. No. 4, p. 16, pi. i. figs. 8, 9. 

 1869. Palxopteris Reussii, Schimper, Traite d. paleont. veget., vol. i. p. 478. 

 1894. Archseopteris Reussii, Kidston, Proc. Roy. Phys. Soc. Edin., vol. xii. p. 242. 



Description. — Frond bipinnate, main rachis rigid, straight, smooth ; pinnse alternate, 

 linear-lanceolate, rachis straight, smooth ; pinnules alternate, obovate, directed forwards 

 and contracted into a short decurrent stalk, upper margin minutely dentate ; nervation 

 flabelliform, arising from the repeated dichotomy of a single vein. 



Remarks. — The pinnules are so directed forwards that their margin next the rachis 

 lies almost parallel with it. They are gradually narrowed into a short stalk, into which 



