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Ettingshauseni ; the latter figure only shows one of several cone-bearing branches 

 which occur on the slab. 



The originals of these figures are preserved in the " Hutton Collection," Hancock 

 Museum, Newcastle-on-Tyne. 



Horizon and Locality. — Roof of New Mine Coal: Mount Pleasant, Brierley Hill. 



Palseostachya elongata Presl, sp. 



1838. Volkmannia elongata, Presl, Verhandl. d. Gesell. d. vaterldndisehen Museums in Bbhmen, p. 27, 



pi. i. (fide Weiss). 

 1872. ,, ,, Feistm., Abhandf. d.k. bohm. Gesell. d. Wissensch., vi. Folge, vol. v. p. 20, 



pi. iv. fig. 3, pi. v. fig. 2. 

 1874. „ ,, Feistm., Vers. d. bohm. Ablager, i. Abth. p. 119, pi. xiii. figs. 1, 2. 



1876. Palxostacliya elongata; Weiss, Steink. Calamarien, part i. p. 108, pi. xv. ; part ii. p. 181, pi. xxii. 



fig. 15. 

 1911. ,, . ,, Jongmans, Anleitung, vol. i. p. 324, figs. 281-2. 



Note. — Very rare. Collected by Mr H. W. Hughes. 

 Horizons and Localities. — 



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

 This specimen is fragmentary, and not in a suitable condition for a 

 satisfactory determination. (K. No. 3700.) 

 Roof of New Mine Coal : Merryhill Colliery, Mount Pleasant, Brierley Hill. 



Palseostachya gracillima Weiss. 



1884. Palxostachya gracillima, Weiss, Steinkohlen-Calamarien, part ii. p. 184, pi. xviii. fig. 1. 

 1886. ,, „ Kidston, Trans. Geol. Soc. Glasgoio, p. 54, pi. iii. fig. 3. 



1910. ,, „ Arber, Proc. Yorkshire Geol. Soc, vol. xvii. part ii. p. 143, pi. xii. 



1911. ,, „ Jongmans, Anleitung, vol. i. p. 326, fig. 283. 



Remarks. — This species is rare in the South Staffordshire Coal Field, and I only 

 know of the plant having been collected once by Mr H. W. Hughes, F.G.S. 



Horizon and Locality. — Roof of Fireclay Coal: Doulton's Clay Pit, Netherton. 



Palseostachya minuta Kidston, n. sp. 

 PI. XI. figs. 1, la-lc. 



Description. — Cone small, 1*5 cm. long and about 2*5 mm. wide, with somewhat 

 blunt apex, bracts arcuate, distal portion upright, apex slightly incurved, about 

 1^ times as long as internodes. Internodes 1 to 1'25 mm. long. Probably six 

 sporangiophores in a whorl. 



Remarks. — Some small slabs were collected by Mr H. W. Hughes, thickly covered 

 with these cones, of which a slab is seen at fig. 1, PI. XL, natural size. They are 

 detached from their parent stems and are usually more or less imperfect, though 



