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Caption: Carboniferous fossil plants. Plate LXVI.
Description: Fig. 1. Diplotmema adiantoicles Schl. sp.
Portion of a section of a frond showing a primary pinna given off at a, and a dichotomy of the rachis at b.
Enlarged two times.
Locality. Shore near high-water mark at Cuthill, between Musselburgh and Prestonpans, Haddingtonshire.
Horizon. Beds between Nos. 4 and 5 Limestones, Upper Limestone Group. Carboniferous Limestone Series.
Kidston Collection, No. 3812.
Fig. 2. Diplotmema adiantoicles Schl. sp.
Fragment of a stem showing the departure at a of two petioles united by their enlarged bases, and at b a petiole dichotomizing close to the stem. Enlarged two times.
Locality.Glenmuir Water, Dalblair, near Old Cumnock, Ayrshire.
Horizon. ? Calciferous Sandstone Series. Collected by Mr JOHN SMITH. Kidston Collection, No. 5392.
Fig. 3. Diplotmema adiantoides Schl. sp.
Portion of a stem giving off petioles on which the vertical bands of transverse bars passing up the petioles are seen to descend the stem long after the petioles have become free.
Locality. Macrihanish Water, 320 yards west of Wimbledon Pit, near Campbeltown, Argyllshire.
Horizon. Shale interbedded in sandstone, Limestone Coal Group. Carboniferous Limestone Series.
Natural size. Kidston Collection, No. 4487.
Fig. 4. Rhacopteris petiolata Gopp. sp.
Copy of the original figure of Sphenopteris alciphylla Phill. MS. published in LEBOUR, Illustrations of Fossil Plants," pI. xxxvii, 1877.
Locality.Wegber Pit, on the north-west side of the River Lune, near Oughton, Lancashire.
Horizon. Lower Carboniferous.
Photographer: Kidston, R.
Copyright statement: NERC
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