FOREST OF WYRE AND TITTERSTONE CLEE HILL COAL FIELDS. 1059 



Samaropsis emarginata Gopp. and Berger, but in Newberry's species the seed is 

 slightly larger and the wing is broader on the basal margin, so I have deemed it 

 safer to omit this reference. 



Localities. — At back of building, Cooper's Mill (3rd mill W. of Dowles Church), 

 l£ mile W. of Dowles Church, near Bewdley (K. 2118). 



Road section, 250 yards N.E. of Cooper's Mill (3rd mill W. of Dowles Church). 



Horizon. — Westphalian Series. 



Samaropsis Gutbieri Geinitz sp. 

 PI. V, fig. 6. 



1855. Cardiocarpon Gutbieri, Geinitz, Vers. d. Steinkf. in Sachsen, p. 39, pi. xxi, figs. 23-25. 



1870. ,, ,, Geinitz, Neues Jahrb., p. 420, pi. iv, figs. 1-5 (" Ueber organ. Uberreste 



aus der Steink. von Langeac, Haute-Loire"). 

 1888. Cardiocarpus Gutbieri, Kidston, Trans. Roy. Soc. Edin., vol. xxxiii, p. 403, pi. xxiii, fig. 5. 

 1893. „ ,, Potonie, Flora d. Rothl. v. Thiiringen, p. 254, pi. xxxi, figs. 15-19. 



1914. ,, ,, Arber, Ann. of Bat., vol. xxviii, p. 97, pi. vi, fig. 15. 



1881. Cordaispermum Gutbieri, Renault, Cours de bot.foss., vol. i, p. 103, pi. xiv, fig. 7. 

 1874. cf. Cardiocarpus sclerotesta, Brongt., and Cardiocarpus sclerotesta minor, Brongt., " Graines fossiles 



trouvees a l'^tat silicifie, etc.," Ann. d. Sciences nal. : Bot., 5 e s^r., 



vol. xx, pp. 245, 261, pi. xxi, figs. 5, 6. 

 1881. cf. „ ,, Brongt., and Cardiocarpus sclerotesta minor, Brongt., Becker, graines 



foss. silic, p. 37, pi. A, figs. 5, 6. 

 1890. ,, ,, Renault, Flore foss. bassin houil. d. Commentry, 2 e part., p. 597, 



pi. lxxii, fig. 3. 

 1877. cf. Cordaicarpus major, Grand'Eury, Flore Carbon, d. depart, de la Loire, p. 235, pi. xxvi, 



fig. 16 [nucule). 

 1890. cf. „ ,, Renault, Flore foss. d. bassin houil. d. Commentry, 2 e part, p. 600, 



pi. lxxii, figs. 10, 11 (nucule). 

 1858. Cardiocarpon Ottonis, Geinitz, Leitpflanzen d. Rothl. u. Zechstein, p. 18, pi. ii, figs. 17, 18 (Oster 



Progiamm d. k. Polytech. Schule zu Dresden). 

 1861-1862. Cyclocarpon Ottonis, Geinitz, Dyas, p. 150, pi. xxxiv, figs. 6, 7. 



1S58. Cardiocarpon reniformis, Geinitz, Leitpflanzen d. Rothl. u. d. Zechstein, p. 18, pi. ii, figs. 15, 16. 

 1861-1862. „ ,, Geinitz, Dyas., p. 145, pi. xxxi, fig. 16. 



Description. — Seed cordate or reniform, longer than broad or broader than long, 

 and varying in size from about 1*40 cm. to 3 or 3'5 cm. in greatest diameter. Wing 

 narrow and surrounding the lenticular nucule on all sides. Surface smooth. 



Remarks. — The form and size of this seed varies considerably if we unite with it, as 

 done by Potonie, the Samaropsis reniformis Geinitz sp. and the Samaropsis Ottonis 

 Geinitz sp. These two, except in being somewhat larger than the type, have no other 

 character by which they can be clearly separated. They have the same narrow wing 

 which is characteristic of Samaropsis Gutbieri. On one of the figures of Samaropsis 

 reniformis given by Geinitz, * the wing seems a little broader than on the majority 

 of the specimens of this species, but the difference is so slight that it can scarcely be 

 regarded as of specific value. The example figured here is identical with that given 



* Dyas, pi. xxxi, fig. 16. 



