SELLARDS.| Fossil Plants, Upper Paleozoic, Kansas. 425 
White from the Elmdale shales at Onaga. (Bull U. S. Geol. 
Surv. No. 211.) 
Annullaria STERNBERG. 
Versuch einar Flora der Vorvelt, vol. 1, fasel. 2, p. 36, 18238. 
Annullaria sphenophylloides (Zenk.) Gutb. Pl. LIII, fig. 5. 
The normal form of this species is represented by several 
specimens from Lansing. 
Annullaria sphenophylloides var. intermedia. 
Lesquereux (Coal Flora, p. 724) established the variety 
intermedia for the large-leaved Annullaria sphenophylloides 
occurring in the Le Roy shales, for which the following diag- 
nosis was given: “Branches much and horizontally divided; 
whorls of leaves measuring laterally or in the broadest side 
from 8 to 30 mm., composed of fourteen to twenty-two ob- 
lanceolate-obtuse, more or less inflated, leaflets; median nerve 
obscure.” The variety is to some extent intermediate be- 
tween A. stellata and A. sphenophylloides, having larger 
whorls than typical representatives of the latter, and broader, 
more obtuse leaflets than the former. 
Formation and locality: Le Roy, Scranton and Emporia 
shales. 
Annullaria stellata (Schloth.) Wood. 
A. stellata is present in the Coal Measures from the Chero- 
kee shales to the Garrison formation. The verticils from the 
Cherokee shales at Lansing have rather slender leaves, ob- 
tusely rounded at the apex and narrowed to a slender attach- 
ment at the base. The lamina is rough, somewhat scaly. Fine 
striz are present in the lamina. The species is common in 
the Le Roy shales, the leaflets in some cases reaching a length 
of 4 cm. 
Macrostachya SCHIMPER. 
Traite Paleont. Veg., vol. 1, p. 3338, 1869. 
Macrostachya cf. infundibuliformis Schimper. Pl. LIII, fig. 6. 
The spike which I refer provisionally to this species is not 
sufficiently well preserved to be positively determinable. The 
shape is much like that figured by Germar and referred to 
this species. The scales are acute at the top, the free tips be- 
ing rather longer than the united bases. In general they re- 
semble closely the scales figured by Lesquereux as belonging 
to this species. The spike is obtusely pointed at the top, nar- 
rowed a little toward the base, slightly curved. The articula- 
