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Lepi. 



this earliest tree fern grew must have been near by. Lesque- 

 reux found at the same place, Lepidodendron leaves of the 

 regular kind, long, straight, channeled and nerved. Coal Flora, 

 1880, page 376.---FZ/76. 



Lepidodendron rimosum. (Sternberg; Eoehl; Lesquer- 



eux, Geol. Pa. 1858, plate 8, fig. 1 ; 

 10, fig. 2 ; Schimper, II, plate 60. — 

 ^ Sagenaria rimosa^ Presl. — Lep, vi- 

 rtiosum. and Lep. dissiium^ Sauv. 

 Veg. Fos. Belgium; Lep, simplex^ 

 Lesq. Illinois Keport, Vol. 2, plate 

 45 ; Lep. duhium^ Wood, Trans. Am. 

 Phil. Soc. Phil., Vol. 13, plate 8, fig. 

 4.) CoUett's Indiana Rt. 1882, page 80, plate 17, fig. Z.— Above 

 Conglomerate at Pottsville, Pa. and in Illinois and Kentucky. 

 The rarity of Z. simplex and abundance of Z. rimosum in Europe, 

 contrasted with the rarity of Z. rimosum and abundance of Z. 

 simplex in the American coal measures, points to a specific 

 difference. Lesq. — XLLL 



Lepidodendron rushvillense. See Appendix. 



Lepidodendron scohiniiorme. See Li. corrugatum. X. 



Lepidodendron sigillarioides. Lesq., Geol. Penna. 1858, 



p. 87.5, plate 15, fig. 6.— Jfam- 

 moth anthracite hed^ Lehigh 

 Summit Mine. — Note. In 

 Coal Flora, 1880, P, page 379, 

 Lesquereux expresses the 

 opinion that this fragment of 

 harked wood may be referred 

 to Lepidodendron latifolium., 

 or to Lepidodendron vestitum. 

 —XLLL— In the Coal Flora 

 this species is made a syno- 

 nym of Lepidodendron vesti- 

 IBSSi. ^""^^^^^^^^M tum., v^hich is rare in the 



6:LepiJ^dMndrd'w^^^^^ Ooal Measures. 



sigiUarwtd&s .,Lc^q . PI, 'S- 



Lepidodendrom sternbergii, Bgt. Detected by Lesquer- 

 eux at the base of XII in the Northern Anthracite Field, in 

 Lacoe's collections at Pittston. (G7, 37, 40)— XZ 

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