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Note. — Common. 

 Horizons and Localities. — 



Roof of Brooch Coal : Himley ; Shut End. 



Gubbin Ironstone : High Haden Colliery, Old Hill ; Shut End ; No. 1 1 Pit, 



Woodside Colliery, Hartshill ; Clayscroft Openwork, Coseley, near Dudley. 



Shale overlying Pont Hill Trap (probably corresponding to shales between 



Fireclay and Bottom Coals) : Bentley Quarries, Walsall. Collected by 



Mr S. Priest. 



Lepidodendron acutum Presl, sp. 



1838. Bergeria acuta, Presl, in Sternb., Vers., vol. ii. fasc. vii.-viii. p. 184, pi. xlviii. figs, la, \b. 

 1911. Lepidodendron acutum, Kidston, Mem. Musee roy. d'hist. not. d. Belgique, vol. iv. p. 146. 

 1854. Lepidodendron Haidingeri, Ettingshausen, Steinkf. v. Radnitz, p. 55, pis. xxii., xxiii. 

 1886. ,, „ Zeiller, Flore foss. bassin houil. d. Valen., p. 461, pi. lxix. fig. 1. 



1875. Sagenaria elegans, Feistm. (non Sternb.), Vers. d. bbhm. Ablager., ii. Abth. p. 29, pi. viii. figs. 3, 3a. 

 1899. Lepidodendron elegans, Hofmann and Ryba {non Sternb.) (pars), Leitpflanzen, p. 80, pi. xiv. 

 figs. 2, 3 (non pi. xiv. fig. 1, pi. xv. fig. 9). 



Note. — Not common. 



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

 near Dudley. 



Cf. Lepidodendron distans Lesqx. 

 [Lepidodendron serpentigerum Konig, Icones foss. sectiles, pi. xvi. fig. 195.) 



1858. Lepidodendron distans, Lesqx., Geol. of Pennsyl., vol. ii. p. 874, pi. xvi. fig. 5. 



1879. „ „ Lesqx., Goal Flora, vol. ii. p. 387, pi. lxiv. fig. 10. 



1858. Lepidodendron oculatum, Lesqx., Geol. of Pennsyl., vol. ii. p. 874, pi. xvi. fig. 4. 



1869. Lepidodendron chilallaeum, Wood, Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc, vol. xiii. p. 346, pi. ix. fig. 4. 



Remarks. — The specimen figured by Mr B. Smith in the Geol. Mag., May 1905, 

 p. 209, as Lepidodendron sp. is most probably an aged example of Lepidodendron 

 distans Lesqx. ( = Lepidodendron serpentigerum Konig). The characters which he 

 appears to regard as precluding the reference of his specimen to this species may, I 

 think, be ascribed to age and imperfect preservation, which in this case makes a satis- 

 factory determination of his fossil impossible. The locality given for the specimen is 

 "from the Middle Coal Measures near Dudley." It is contained in the Johnson 

 Collection, British Museum (No. V. 1233). 



This species in my previous lists was included under the name of Lepidodendron 

 serpentigerum, Konig, but it has been shown that the part of Konig's work containing 

 the figure and name of Lepidodendron serpentigerum, though privately distributed, 

 was never issued to the public* Konig's name must therefore give place to that of 

 Lesquereux. 



* Zeiller, Flore foss. bassin houil. d. Valen., p. 708 (footnote), 1888. 



