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
Professor Penhallow[190] instituted this name for a specimen measuring
8 cm. long by 6 mm. in breadth, collected by Mr Reid from the Old Red
Sandstone of Caithness, consisting of an axis bearing narrow lanceolate
leaves some of which bear sporangia at the base.
_Lycopodites Gutbieri_ Goeppert[191].
1894, _Lycopodites elongatus_ Kidston[192] (not Goldenberg).
The species, figured by Geinitz as _Lycopodites Gutbieri_[193], from
the Coal-Measures of Saxony is probably a true representative of the
genus. The Saxon specimens are heterophyllous; the larger lanceolate
and slightly falcate leaves arranged in two rows, are 4–5 mm. long
while the smaller leaves are one half or one third this size; some of
the dichotomously branched shoots terminate in long and narrow strobili
not unlike those of Zeiller’s species _Selaginellites Suissei_[194].
Kidston[195] has included under this specific name some fragments
collected by Hemingway from the Upper Coal-Measures of Radstock,
Somersetshire, but as only one form of leaf is seen the reasons for
adopting Goeppert’s designation are perhaps hardly adequate.
_Lycopodites ciliatus_ Kidston[196].
Under this name Kidston describes a small specimen, obtained by
Hemingway from the Middle Coal-Measures of Barnsley in Yorkshire,
consisting of a slender forked axis bearing oval-acuminate leaves
approximately 5 mm. long with a finely ciliate margin. Associated with
the leaves were found spores which Kidston regards as megaspores.
_Lycopodites macrophyllus_ Goldenberg[197].
This species, originally described by Goldenberg from the Coal-Measures
of Saarbrücken has been re-examined by Halle[198] who is unable to
confirm Goldenberg’s statement as to heterophylly. The shoots closely
resemble _Selaginellites primaevus_[199] (Gold).
[Illustration: FIG. 135. _Selaginellites and Lycopodites._ (After
Halle.)
A. _Selaginellites primaevus_ (Gold.). × 10.
B. Megaspore of _Selaginellites elongatus_ (Gold.). × 50.
C. _Lycopodites Zeilleri_ Halle. (Nat. size.)
D. _Selaginellites elongatus_ (Gold.). × 2.]
_Lycopodites Zeilleri_ Halle[200]. Fig. 135, C.
Halle has founded this species on specimens, from the Coal-Measures
of Zwickau in Saxony, characterised by dimorphic lanceolate leaves in
four rows, the larger being 4–6 mm. long: the smaller leaves have a
ciliate edge. A comparison is made with the recent species _Selaginella
arabica_ Baker, _S. revoluta_ Bak., and _S. armata_ Bak. in which the
leaves are described as ciliate. In the absence of sporangia and spores
the species is placed in the genus _Lycopodites_.
_Lycopodites lanceolatus_ (Brodie). Fig. 136.
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