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Roof of Neto Mine Coal: Coseley, near Dudley ; Dibdale, near Gornal ; Clatters- 

 hall Colliery, Brettell Lane. 

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

 Roof of Bottom Coal : Bradley Colliery, Bilston. 

 Immediately belotv Bottom Coal : Ruiton. 



Alethopteris decurrens Artis, sp. 



1825. Filicites decurrens, Artis, Antedil. Phyt., pi. xxi. 



1886. Alethopteris decurrens, Zeiller, Flore foss. bassin houil. d. Valen., p. 221, pi. xxxiv. figs. 2, 3 ; 



pi. xxxv. fig. 1 ; pi. xxxvi. figs. 3, 4. 

 1832 or 1833. Pecopteris Mantelli, Brongt., Hist. d. veget. foss., p. 278, pi. lxxxiii. figs. 3, 4. 

 1834 or 1835. „ „ L. & H., Fossil Flora, vol. ii. pi. cxlv. 



1832. Pecopteris heterqphylla, L. & H., Fossil Flora, vol. i. pi. xxxviii. 



Note. — This species, which is as a rule fairly widely distributed, I have only seen 

 from the localities noted below; in the latter mentioned it is not of very rare occurrence. 

 Horizons and Localities. — 



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



near Birmingham. Collected by Mr H. Insley. 

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



Alethopteris Davreuxi Brongt., sp. 



1832 or 1833. Pecopteris Davreuxi, Brongt., Hist. d. veget. foss., p. 279, pi. lxxxviii. figs. 1, 2. 

 1886. Alethopteris Davreuxi, Zeiller, Flore foss. bassin houil. d. Valen., p. 228, pi. xxxii. fig. 1. 

 1832 or 1833. Pecopteris Dournaisii, Brongt., ibid., p. 282, pi. lxxxix. fig. 1 (? non fig. 2). 



Note. — Not common. 



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

 Coseley, near Dudley ; Ettingshall. 



Alethopteris valida Boulay. 



1876. Alethopteris valida, Boulay, Terr, houil. d. Nord de la France, p. 35, pi. i. fig. 8. 



1886. „ ,, Zeiller, Flore foss. bassin houil. d. Valen., p. 231, pi. xxxiii. figs. 1, 2; 



pi. xxxiv. fig. 1. 

 1910. ,, ,, Gothan, in Totonie, Abbild. u. Beschreib. foss. Pflanzen, Lief, vii., No. 125, 



figs. l-4a, b. 

 1912. ,, ,, Franke, Beitr. z. Kennt. d. paldoz. Arten v. Alethopteris u. Gallipteridium, 



p. 57, figs. l-4a, b. 

 1854. Alethopteris Serli, Geinitz (non Brongt.), Darst. d. Flora d. Hainichen Ebersdorfer Kohlenbassins, 

 p. 44, pi. xiv. figs. 3, 4 (1 fig. 5). 



Note. — Very rare. 

 Horizons and Localities. — 



Blue Measures above Brooch Coal : Jubilee Pit, Sandwell Park, West 

 Bromwich. 



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



