FOSSIL FLORA OF THE STAFFORDSHIRE COAL FIELDS. 117 



That shown at fig. 8 was collected by Mr H. W. Hughes, and that at fig. 9 by 

 Mr W. Madeley, and I am indebted to these two friends for the interesting 

 specimens. 



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

 Coseley, near Dudley. 



Equisetacese. 



Equisetites Sternberg. 



Equisetites Hemingway! Kidston, sp. 



1892. Equisetum Hemingwayi, Kidston, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., p. 138, figs, a, b. 



1898. Equisetites Hemingwayi, Seward, Fossil Plants, vol. i. p. 263, fig. 57a. 



1901. „ „ Kidston, Proc. Yorks. Geol. and Polyt. Soc., vol. xiv. p. 198, pi. xxxiv. 



fig. 3. 

 1911. ,, ,, Jongmans, Anleit. Karbonpflanzen West-Europas, p. 30, figs. 35 and 37. 



Note. — Very rare. I have only seen a single specimen of Equisetites Hemingwayi 

 from this coal field. 



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

 Coseley, near Dudley. 



Calamites Suckow. 

 Calamites Suckowi Brongt. 



1828. Calamites Suckowi, Brongt., Hist. d. veget.foss., p. 124 (pi. xiv. fig. 6?), pi. xv. figs. 1-6 ; pi. xvi. 



_ (fig- 1 ?) 2, 3, 4. 

 1876. „ ,, Weiss, Steinkohlen Calamarien, part i. p. 123, pi. xix. fig. 1 ; part ii.. 1884, 



p. 129, pi. ii. fig. 1 ; pi. iii. figs. 2, 3; pi. iv. fig. 1 ; pi. xvii. fig. 5 ; 



pi. xxvii. fig. 3. 

 1886. „ „ Zeiller, Flore foss. bassin houil. d. Valen., p. 333, pi. liv. figs. 2, 3; pi. Iv. 



fig. 1. 



Note. — Common. 

 Horizons and Localities. — 



Above Brooch Coal: Oldbury ; Himley ; Shut End, near Kingswinford ; Holly 



Hall, near Dudley. 

 Shales, thirty yards above Thick Coal : Hamstead Colliery, Great Ban, near 



Birmingham. 

 Roof of Thick Coal: Bradley Colliery, Bilston. 

 Immediately below Thick Coal : Yew Tree Colliery, Rowley Regis. 

 White Ironstone : Sandwell Park Colliery, West Bromwich. 

 Roof of Bottom Coal: No. 120 Pit, Coneygre Colliery, Tipton. 

 ? Parkfield, near Wolverhampton. 



? Russell's Hall, Dudley. 



