Dr. Feistmanicl — Bohemian Coal Fauna and Passagc-Beds. 109 
above is almost throughout of real Carboniferous character, and 
many species are identical with those from the lower Coal-seam ; 
but some few species of the N ürschan Gas-coal seeru to bear Per- 
mian affinities. 
I enumerated all the plants in my papers above mentioned. and it 
will be sufficient to mention the genera only, and some of the species. 
Plants in the Gas-coal. 1 
Calamites (3 sp. Carbonif.), Hultonia, Asterophyllites (Carbonif.), Sphenophyllum 
(Carbonif) . 
Sphenopteris - (about 9 Carbonif. sp.), Hymenophylliles , Schizopteris, Cyatheites (4 
sp. Carbonif.), Alethopteris (3 sp., important, Alelhopt. erosa . Gutb., and 
longi/olia, Göpp.) ; Oligocaipia (?), Neuropteri *, Odontopteris (I tliink obtusi- 
loba , Naum.j-or obtusa, Brong.); Dictyopteris Brongniarti, Gutb.; Cyclopteris. 
Lepidodendron dichotomum, Stbg. ; Sagenaria elegans, Stbg. ; Knorria, Lepidophyllum 
majus, Brong. ; Zepidostrobus variabilis, L.H. ; Cardincarpon, e tc. 
Sigillaria distans, Stbg. ; Sigillarinestrobus , Stigmaria. 
Walchia — I tliink eertainly some branchlets belong here (of the common Permian 
form). 
There are, altogether, about 50 species of plants of Carboniferous 
character, besides the animals, which Dr. Pritsch, from the very 
first, 3 recognized as Permian genera, and which he lately announced 
before the Glasgow meeling, as representing the passage between 
the Carboniferous and Permian formations. 
h. Plants in the Shale above the Upper Seam . 4 
As in the Gas-coal, and also in the Shale above the Upper Coal- 
seam (therefore also above the Gas-coal), the Flora is still of 
Carboniferous character. I had occasion to determine about 75 
species. mostly well-preserved and interesting plants. All Orders, as 
Fquisetacece, Filices, Lycopodiacece, and Sigillaria;, are frequently 
represented; Sphenophyllum Schlotheimi, Brong., very frequent, Sphe- 
nopteris abounds, amongst which truly Carboniferous forms, as 
Sphenopt. Böninghausi, Sph. ohtusiloba, Brong.; Sph. asplenites, Gutb., 
prevailing ; Neuropteris numerous; Adiantites giganteus, Göpp.; 
Dictyopteris, Gutb. ; Cyatheites, Alethopteris, and especially various 
forms of fern trunks of the genus Megapliytum, which I described in 
a special paper. 5 
Lycopodites, Lepidodendron, Sagenaria, Bergeria, etc., all very 
frequent. 
Sigillaria veiy abundant, with about ten species, and Stigmaria 
throughout. 
With these plants from the Shale above the seam, the Nürschan 
Gas-coal has more than the half of its species (about 32) in common, 
and in both strata the Flora is to be considered as a continuation of 
that in the Lower Coal-seam. 
1 See Feistmantel, Sitzungsb. d. k. bobm. Gesellsch. d. "Wissenscb. 1870. 
Jahrbuch d. k. k. geol. Reichsanstalt, 1872, 1873. — Zeitsch. d. D. geol. Gesellsch 
1873. 
3 Most frequent Sphenopt. Gravenhorsti, Brong. 
3 Sitzungsber. d. k. bolim. Gesellsch. d. "Wiss. 1870. 
4 See the same papers as before. 
5 Ueber Baumfarrenreste der bohm. Kohlenformation, etc., Abhandl. der k.bohm. 
Gesellsch. d. Wissensch. 1872, ii. Tafeln. 
