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Seed cordate, about 13 mm. long and broad, base emarginate, apex 
acute. Nucule cordate, central, with a median ridge extending from apex to 
centre of base. Wing about 4 mm. broad, and of nearly equal breadth 
round the nucule. Micropylar region very rounded. 
(5) Samar opsis subacuta , Grand’ Eury (Text-fig. 6). 
Type Samar opsis subacuta , Grand’ Eury, ‘ Flore Carbon. Loire,’ 
p. 281, PI. XXXIII, Fig. 5, 1877. Recorded from the Middle Coal 
Measures of Yorkshire. 
Text-fig. 6. Samaropsis subacuta , G.’ E. After Grand’ Eury. 
Seed small, ovate or oblong, 1 cm. long, 7 mm. across. Nucule ovate, 
keeled, large, apex acute. Wing small, very narrow or absent at the base, 
broadest at the apex. 
Genus Samarospermum, gen. nova. 
Winged seeds very elongate and narrow, usually rounded at both ends, 
and narrowly elliptical in form. Nucule small, elliptical, situated midway 
between the apex and the base. Sarcotesta with numerous, fine, parallel, 
longitudinal striae. 
Samarospermum moravicum (Helmhacker) (PI. VI, Figs. 19 and 20). 
Type Jordania moravica , E. Geinitz, ‘Neues Jahrb. Mineral.,’ year 1875, 
p. 11, PI. I, Figs. 10, 11 ; Samaropsis moravica , Zeiller, ‘ Flore Foss. Bass. 
Houill. et Perm. Brive,’ p. 95, PI. XV, Figs. 9, 10. Recorded from the 
Middle Coal Measures of the Kent coalfield. 
Seed narrowly elliptical, from 2-3 cm. long and 5-8 mm. broad, broadly 
round at both ends. Nucule central, small, about 6 mm. long and 1*5-3 mm - 
across, elliptical. Sarcotesta with numerous, fine, longitudinal striations. 
Genus Rhabdocarpus, Berger, 1848. 
Seeds large, oval, only symmetrical in one plane, winged, more or less 
pointed at one extremity, rounded at the other. Nucule large, unsymme- 
trically oval or semicircular. Wing broad, unsymmetrical. Testa with 
close, thread-like, longitudinal striae. 
Rhabdocarpus Lillie anus , sp. nova (PI. VII, Fig. 21). 
Type No. 3034, Carbon. Plant Coll., Sedgwick Mus., Camb. (Lillie 
Collection). Upper Coal Measures (Farrington Series), Coal Pit Heath 
Colliery, Bristol coalfield. 
Seed broadly oval, exceeding 4 cm. in length and 3 cm. in width 
at its greatest breadth, somewhat contracted towards the bluntly pointed 
apex. Base unknown. Central portion of seed rugose, with irregular 
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