Fossil plants, Vol. 2 : $b A text-book for students of botany and geologySeward, A. C. (Albert Charles)
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Fossil plants, Vol. 2 : $b A text-book for students of botany and geology
Seward, A. C. (Albert Charles)
Paleobotany
This species, which is less abundant than _B. minutifolium_, in British
Coal-Measures, has been described by several authors as _Ulodendron_
on account of the occurrence of large depressions, like those shown
in fig. 211, on certain branches of the plant. At the suggestion of
Dr Kidston, Prof. Zeiller[618] figured an English specimen of this
species, presented to the Paris Museum by Mr Hutton, in which the
leaf-scars are preserved on the bark of a stem with Ulodendron scars.
The surface of the bark is characterised by numerous small pits and
discontinuous vertical lines in contrast to the transverse lines of _B.
minutifolium_ (cf. fig. 212, A and F). The leaf-scars on the smaller
shoots may have a diameter of only 0·3–0·5 mm., while on the larger
branches they reach a breadth of 1 mm. The ligule-pit may be in contact
with the upper edge (fig. 212, F) of the leaf-scar or separated from it
by a short distance.
[Illustration: FIG. 213. _Bothrodendron minutifolium_ Cone. From a
specimen in Dr Kidston’s Collection. (Slightly reduced. Kidston
(02) Pl. LIX.)]
_c_. _Bothrodendron kiltorkense_ (Haughton). Fig. 212, G, H.
1859. _Cyclostigma kiltorkense_, Haughton, Journ. R. Soc. Dublin,
Vol. II. p. 418, Pls. XIV.–XVII.
_C. minutum_, Haughton, Journ. R. Soc. Dublin, Vol. II. p. 418,
Pls. XIV.–XVII.
_C. Griffithsi_, Haughton, Journ. R. Soc. Dublin, Vol. II. p. 418,
Pls. XIV.–XVII.
1870. _Lepidodendron Veltheimianum_, Heer (_ex parte_), K. Svensk.
Vet. Akad. Handl. Vol. IX. Pl. IX. figs. 2–4.
_Cyclostigma kiltorkense_, _ibid_. Pl. XI. figs. 1–5.
_Calamites radiatus_ (_ex parte_), _ibid_. Pl. III. fig. 2_a_: Pl.
IX. fig. 2_b_.
_Stigmaria ficoides minuta_, _ibid_. Pl. IX. fig. 2_c_.
_Knorria imbricata_, _ibid_. Pl. X. fig. 4.
1889. _Bothrodendron kiltorkense_, Kidston, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist.
[VI.], Vol. IV. p. 66.
1894. _Bothrodendron kiltorkense_, Nathorst, K. Svensk. Vet. Akad.
Handl. Vol. XXVI. No. 4, p. 65, Pls. XIV. XV.
1902. _Bothrodendron (Cyclostigma) kiltorkense_, _ibid_. Vol. XXXVI.
No. 3, p. 31, Pls. X.–XIV.
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