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Annularia stellata Schl., sp. 



PL IX. figs. 1 and la. 



1804. Schlotheim, Flora d. Vorwelt, p. 32, pi. i. fig. 4. 



1820. Casuarinites stellatus, Schloth., Petrefactenkunde, p. 397. 



1860. Annularia stellata, Wood, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sciences Phil., p. 236. 



1886. ,, „ Zeiller, Flore foss. bassin houil. d. Valen., p. 398, pi. lxi. figs. 3-6. 



1911. „ „ Jongmans, Anleitung, vol. i. p. 238, figs. 193-196, 200-203. 



1845. Annularia longifolia, Gerniar, Vers. v. Wettin u. Lbbejun, p. 25, pi. ix. figs. 1-4. 



Cones. 

 1826. Bruckmannia tuberculata, Sternb., Essai flore monde prim., vol. i. fasc. iv. pp. 45 and xxix, 



pi. xlv. fig. 2. 

 1876. Stachannularia tuberculata, Weiss, Steinkohlen Calamarien, Heft i. p. 17, pi. i. figs. 2-5, pi. ii. 



figs. 1-3 and 5 (left-hand figure), pi. iii. figs. 3-10, 12. 

 1884. Calamostachys (Stachannularia) tuberculata, Weiss, ibid., Heft ii. p. 178. 



Remarks. — The largest whorls of leaves on this specimen are only 1*30 cm. in 

 diameter, but notwithstanding their comparatively small size I have no hesitation 

 in referring the fossil to Annularia stellata. The specimen is shown natural size 

 on PL IX. fig. 1, and a portion enlarged 2 times at fig. la. The leaves are lanceolate 

 spathulate and single-veined. Their widest part is about f of their length from the 

 base, and they terminate in subacute or blunt points. They agree in form perfectly 

 with the leaves of Annularia stellata Schl., sp., and only differ in size. This, however, 

 may be explained by the specimen having occupied a position near the termination 

 of a branch, or even possibly having been part of a young individual. 



In size the whorls are less than in Annularia sphenophylloides, var. intermedia, 

 Lesqx., as figured by Sellards,* but in this plant the leaves are broadly spathulate 

 with blunt apices, quite typical of Annularia sphenophylloides, whereas the leaves of the 

 Sandwell specimen are typical in form with those of Annularia stellata. 



This and another specimen from the same locality are the only examples I have 

 yet seen from the Westphalian of Britain, but it occurs very near the top of the series. 

 Annularia stellata has, however, been recorded from the Westphalian Series of the 

 Continent. 



Horizon and Locality. — Blue Measures, above Brooch Coal : Jubilee Pit, Sandwell 

 Park, West Bromwich. 



Calamostachys Schimper. 



Calamostachys Solmsi Weiss. 



PL IX. figs. 4, 4a, 46, 4c, id. 



1876. Macrostachya infundibidiformis, var. Solmsi, Weiss, Steink. Calam., Heft i. p. 73, pi. xviii. fig. 1 



(pars), figs. 3, 3a, and 4. 

 1884. Calamostachys Solmsi, Weiss, Steink. Calam., Heft ii. p. 177. 

 1911. ,, ,, Jongmans, Anleitung, vol. i. p. 288, fig. 236. 



* Foss. Plants, Upper Paleozoic, Kansas, p. 425, pi. liii. fig. 5, 1908. 



