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Neur 



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Neuropteris {Cydopteris) germari. (Goeppart, Syst 

 Xnr /. JBfe^ ^v^ Fol. Foss.) Lesq. Geol. 



Pa. Vol. 2, page 856, 

 plate 5, fig. 5. Only a 

 small specimen of this 

 remarkable species was 

 found at the Salem an- 

 thracite mine, near 

 Pottsville, Pa. The 

 form of the leaves is as 

 peculiar as is their mode 

 of attachment to the 

 stem (rachis), which is 

 thick and striated nar- 

 (]yolSjrfj^Hs-^e7;Tn^i..6vpp;^ ^ //. ^: rowly. Its leaves some- 



what suggest Neuropteris desoriL In Coal Flora, 1880, P, 

 p. 113, Lesquereux identifies it with the European Filicites crisp 

 us^ and with Adiantites germari ; changes its name to Neurop- 

 teris germari ; and figures (plate 18, figs. 3, 4, 5) specimens 

 from the anthracite Salem vein ; from Mazon creek nodules, 

 111. ; and from a subconglomerate sandstone ( Chester group) 

 in Mercer Co., Ill— X/// and XL 



Neuropteris gibbosa. (iV. undans, Lesq.) Lesq. Geol. 

 ..„ ^ . .^ , , r*..^ f Pa. 1858, p. 



^^^ '1 858, plate 5, 



fig. 3 ; a fine 

 species some- 

 what related 

 to N. Uexu- 

 ^^^ osa^ but with 

 thinner, 

 er nerves, 

 without 

 middle nerve; 

 M#'^ opposite leaf- 

 lets, etc., iruit holes (?) at base of some leaflets. — Anthra- 

 cite Salem vein, Pottsville. Note — Lesq. has identified his 

 N, undans with it for reasons given in his Coal Flora, Rt. 

 P, 1850, p. 84, where he says it was found in ''Upper Anthra- 



