Note . 
52i 
It appeared desirable to place these specimens on record as the first of the kind 
obtained in Britain, or from so ancient an horizon as the Lower Coal-Measures. At 
present no stem is known with which these leaves can be correlated. While they 
appear to find their natural place in M. Renault’s genus, it is evident that they are 
specifically different from the form described by him, as shown for example by the 
marked lateral furrows of the Shore leaf, while they are described as entirely absent 
from the leaf of S. Decatsnei, even in its widest part. Neither is there any trace of 
centrifugal wood, as in the latter species, in the British examples. 
The name Sigillariopsis sulcata may conveniently be given to the leaf described 
above, the specific designation referring to its characteristic lateral furrows. The 
new species must be regarded as founded on the Shore specimen, with which the 
Dulesgate leaf may or may not prove to be identical. 
There is every prospect that additional specimens will be recognized on further 
search, and we may hope to identify the stem ; in any case it is proposed to give 
a fuller account of these fossils, with illustrations, on another occasion. 
D. H. SCOTT, Kew. 
