FOSSIL FLORA OF THE STAFFORDSHIRE COAL FIELDS. Ill 



Note. — Rare. 



Horizons and Localities. — 



Shale, thirty yards above Thick Coal : Hamstead Colliery, Great Barr, near 

 Birmingham. 



Immediately below Bottom Coal : Ruiton, near Sedgley. 



Neuropteris Grangeri Brongt. 



1830. Neuropteris Grangeri, Brongt., Hist. d. veget. foss., vol. i. p. 237, pi. lxviii. fig. 1. 

 1879. „ ., Lesqx., Coal Flora, p. 105, pi. xiii. fig. 9. 



' 1890. ,, „ Zeiller, Flore foss. d. bassin houil. et perm. d'Autun et d'fipinac, p. 145, 



pi. xi. fig. 6. 



Note. — Very rare. 

 Horizons and Localities. — 



Roof of Tliick Coal: Bradley Colliery, Bilston. 



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



Neuropteris Schlehani Stur. 



1877. Neuropteris Schlehani, Stur, Culm Flora, Heft ii., p. 289, pi. xxviii. figs. 7, 8a, b, c. 



1886. ,, ,, Zeiller, Flore foss. bassin houil. d. Valen., p. 280, pi. xlvi. fig. 3 ; pi. xlvii. 



figs. 1, 2. 

 1879. Neuropteris Elrodi, Lesqx., Coal Flora, vol. i. p. 107, pi. xiii. fig. 4. 

 1877. Neuropteris Dluhoschi, Stur, ibid., p. 289, pi. xxviii. fig. 9. 



Note. — This species, which is so common in some of the Continental coal fields of 

 Westphalian age, is undoubtedly a very much rarer species in Britain. 

 Horizons and Localities. — 



Brooch Coal Binds : Oldbury. 



Shale above Thick Coal : Dudley. 



Roof of Bottom Coal: Tipton. (British Museum, No. 52,775 and v. 1301.) 



Neuropteris obliqua Brongt., sp. 



1832. Pecopteris obliqua, Brongt., Hist. d. veget. foss., p. 320, pi. xcvi. hgs. 1-4. 

 1886. Neuropteris obliqua, Zeiller, Flore foss. bassin houil. d. Valen., p. 284, pi. xlviii. figs. 1-7. 

 1911. ,, ,, Kidston and Jongmans, " Sur la fructification de Neuropteris obliqua 



Brongt.," Archives Neerland. d. Sciences exactes et nat., ser. iii., B, vol. i. 

 p. 25, pi. 

 1903. Neurodontopteris impar, Weiss, MS., in Potonie, " Uber einige Carbonfarne," iv. Tlieil, p. 1, 



pi. i. (Jahrb. d. kbnigl. preuss. geol. Landesanst. fur 1902). 

 1836. Neuropteris heterophylla, L. & H. (non Brongt.), Fossil Flora, vol. iii. pi. clxxxiii. 

 1886. Neuropteris acuminata, Zeiller (non Schloth.), Flore foss. bassin houil. d. Valen., p. 255, pi. xli. 



fig. 4. 

 1911. Neuropteris impar, Kidston, Mem. Musie roy. d'hist. nat. de Belgique, vol. iv. p. 83, pi. viii. 



figs. 1, la, 2, 3, 3a. 



