PART 3.] 
Feistmantel: Fossil Floras in India. 
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Quite recently I published a preliminary l-eport on the flora of the cretaceous rocks 
in Bohemia,* where I speak especially in detail of the lowest beds (Perutz.-beds) near 
Nehvizd, Vyserovic, and Kaunic ; two sections illustrate the relations, and all the species 
determined up to that date are given. From this report it is quite distinctly shown how 
Protopteris Sternbergi, Cord, (punctata), is found in the saudstone, together with other 
species of tree ferns, and with cones of Damarites,f while the intercalated clays contain other 
plant fossils. 
These beds in Bohemia with Protopteris are therefore Cenomanian ; so are the beds in 
Moletin in Moravia, and near Niederschona in Saxony; also the locality in Saxony with Pro¬ 
topteris is Cenomanian; the English locality is cenomanian too, and the locality in Greenland 
was afterwards (in the preface) referred by Prof. Heer also to cenomanian. Only Ungers’ 
specimen is said to be from neocomian. 
In Bohemia these beds oontain, besides the plants, only some fresh.water and land 
animal remains, and are therefore fresh-water deposits; so seem to be also the beds near 
Moletin and Niederschona. I am unacquainted with the relations of the English locality, 
and in Greenland these relations are also not quite clear. Prof. Unger’s specimen was asso¬ 
ciated with marine animals. 
The fern stems described from cretaceous rock up to date are as follows :— 
1. Protopteris punctata, Presl. (Heer, Geinitz, Carruthers, etc.).—From Cenoman in 
Bohemia, near Vyserovic and Kaunic; Silesia (Giersdorf), in Saxony (Paulsdorf), in England 
(Shaftesbury in Dorsetshire), and in Greenland (Disco). 
1828. 
1828. 
183S. 
1845. 
1862. 
1853. 
1865. 
1865. 
1865. 
1869. 
1870. 
1872. 
1869. 
1874. 
1874. 
1875. 
Lepidodendron punriatun, Sternberg, Versneh ciner FI, cl. Vorw. X, 1, p. 19, tab. IV, 
f. 1, VIII, 2. Described as carboniferous. 
Sigillaria punctata, Bronguiart, Hist. d. vdget. foss., p. 421, tab. 141, f. 1. As carboniferous. 
Caulopteris punctata , Goppert, Syst. fiiic foss, p. 449, etc. As carboniferous. 
Frotopteris Sternbergi, Corda, Bitrage, p. 77, tab. 43, f. 1. As carboniferous. 
Beus, Jahrb. d. k. k. geol. Reichsanst. Vol. Ill, N. 2, p. 105. Considered Kounie already 
as cretaceous. 
Krejci, in “Ziva.” The locality Kounie is described quite distinctly as cretaceous! 
Goppert in N. Jahrb. f. Min. etc. Quotes i£ as cretaceous ! 
Caulopterifi punctata, Goppert. Zeitseh. d. D. geol. Gesellseb, p. 643, speaks quite dis¬ 
tinctly of it as cretaceous! 
Idem Carruthers, Geol. Magazine, p. 484, P). XIII, from Upper Greensand! 
Frotopteris punctata, Krejci, in Archiv f. naturli. Durclif. von. Bolimen, I Bd. p, 46, 88— 
89, described as Cenoman. 
Frotopt Strenbergi, Rumor In Geolog. v, Oberschlesien, p. 300, as cretaceous! 
Idem, Feistmantel Baumfarrenreste, Abhaudl. d. k. Bohm. Gesellseh. d. Wissensekaften 
Distinctly described as cretaceous. 
Frotopt. Sternbergi , Sehimp. Pal. veget. I, p. 706. Again as carboniferous. 
Frotopt. punctata, Heer. For. foss. Arctic, Vol. III. Quoted again as carboniferous from 
Ujaracusuk, Disco, but in the preface correctly referred to Cenoman. 
Frotopt. Sternbergi, Feistmantel, Sitzb. d. k. Bolim. Gcselisch. d. Wissensck, December 
1874. As cretaceous, Cenoman ! 
Protopt. punctata ., Geinitz. Elbtbalgebirge, p. 304. From Cenoman at Paulsdorf in Saxony. 
la. Protopteris Singeri, Gopp. sp., and Protopteris Cottar, Gopp. sp., at first de¬ 
scribed as peculiar, were later (1865) placed by Prof. Goppert with Protopteris Sternbergi 
Corda.—Both also from cretaceous. 
2. Alsophilina Kouniciana, Dorm. From Cenoman sandstone near Kaunic (Bohemia). 
1853. Krcjci-inZiva, Kaunickd skala.—Plate. 
1872. Feistmantel Bamnfarrcurestc, 1. c.—Figure. 
* Sitzungsb. d. k., Bbhm, Gcselisch. d. Wissensck. December 1874. 
t Mi. Stur’s Lepidocaryopsis Westphaleni. 
