FOSSIL PLANTS. 
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Tliis extremely fine and delicate Lycopodites may be compared to the upper 
branches of Lepidodendron selaffinoules, Sternb., as figured by LI. and Hutt., 
vol. 1, tab. 12 •, and also to Lycopodites Stichlerianus , Gopp., Silurian, p 170, 
tab. 25. In our specios the stem is longer, more slender; the leaves narrower 
and proportionally longer, and the ramification different. 
On the roof shales of the coal at Morris. 
Genus SCHUTZIA, Goppert, Permian Flora, p. 161. 
Stems either single or branching, bearing on short alternate pedicels small 
cones or strobiles of an ovate truncate A form, a compound of imbricate, broadly 
linear pointed scales, united at the base. 
SCHUTZIA BRACTEATA, Sp. HOY. 
PI. xxi, fig. 0 to 9. 
Stem proportionally thick, smooth, bearing alternate short 
pediceled cones or strobiles, about half an inch long, enlarged 
ovate from a narrow base, truncate at the top, slightly turned 
upwards, placed at the axil of a narrow linear bractlet, about 
one inch long and curved upwards. The cone is a compound 
of lanceolate pointed, concave scales, placed in spiral, closely 
imbricated and pressed upon one another, fig. 7 and 8; covering 
a transparent, yellowish membrane, formed of small, elongated, 
equilateral meshes : fig. 9, which enclose or support small 
granules of opaque, brown matter. These granules, scarcely 
the one-hundreth part of a millimeter in diameter, are of a 
roundish, irregular, polygonal form, agglomerated and separa¬ 
ting with difficulty. Their size and irregularity of form pre¬ 
vent considering them as spores ; they look rather like grains 
of pollen. 
From the great difference in the form of the buds born on the stem, which 
cannot be accounted for, I think, by difference in maturity, it would appear as 
if the scape of this plant was bearing monoecious flowers, the ones in strobiles 
bearing pollen, the other fertile buds. These, as seen in a, fig. 6, have the 
appearance of an inflated receptacle, either naked or bordered at its top by foli- 
aceous, narrow divisions. Two specimens of this plant have been found in the 
