XXIII.—On the Internal Structure of Sigillaria elegans of Brongniart's “Histoire des végétaux fossiles”

Robert Kidston

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XXIII.—On the Internal Structure of Sigillaria elegans of Brongniart's “Histoire des végétaux fossiles”

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Robert Kidston

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Before giving a description of the specimen which forms the subject of this communication, it seems desirable that a brief summary of the literature dealing with the internal structure of Sigillaria, and some general remarks on the classification of the genus, should be given.

More for the purpose of convenience than on scientific grounds, the genus Sigillaria is usually divided into four groups. These groups were originally supposed by their founders to be of generic value, but experience has shown that the characters on which they were founded are more or less common to all four divisions, and in some cases the distinctive divisional characters even occur on the same specimen.

Type: Research Article
Information: Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 41 , Issue 3 , 1906 , pp. 533 - 550

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^{page 534 note *} Weiss, Zeitsch. d. deut. geol. Gesell., 1888, p. 566. Zeiller, Bull. Soc. géol. d. France, 3e sér., vol. xvii. p. 603, pl. xiv., 1889. Zeiller, Flore fossile, Bassin houiller et permien de Brive, p. 83, pl. xiv. fig. 1, 1892. Kidston, Proc. Roy. Phys. Soc. Edin., vol. xiii. p. 233, pi. vii. fig. 1, 1896.

^{page 534 note †} Trans. Roy. Soc. Edin., vol. xxxix. p. 57, pl. iii. figs. 1–5, especially figs. 1, 2, 1897.

^{page 534 note ‡} Archives du Muséum, vol i. p. 405, pls xxv-xxviii., 1839, Paris. See also Renault, , “Structure comparée de quelques tiges de la flore carbonifère,” Nouvelles Archives du Muséum, ii., 2^e sér., 1979, p. 262Google Scholar, pl. xi. fig 13. Renault, Flore fossile, Deux. part, Bassin houiller et permica d'Autun et Épinac, fasc. iv p. 200, pl. xxxvi. figs. 8–11, pl. xxxvi. figs. 3–7, 1896.

^{page 534 note §} Ann. d. Scienc. not., 6^e sér., Bot., vol. xix. p. 259, 1884. Weiss, Sitz. Bericht. d. Gessell. naturforsch. Freunde zu Berlin, 1886, No. 5, p. 70.

^{page 534 note ∥} Hist. d. véget. foss., pl. clviii. fig. 6 (? non fig. 5).

^{page 534 note ¶} “On the Organisation of the Fossil Plants of the Coal Measures.” Part II. Lycopodiaceæ: Lepidodendra and Sigillariae. Phil. Trans., 1872, p. 197.

^{page 535 note *} Mém. présentés par divers savants à l'Acad. des Sciences de l'institut national de France, vol. xxii., No. 9, 1875, Paris, pls. i.-iv., pl. vi. figs. 33, 34. See also Renault, “Structure comparée de quelques tiges de la flore carbonifère,” p. 264, pl. xi. figs. 17–21, pl. xii. figs. 1, 2, 1879. “Notice sur les travaux scientifiques de M. Bernard Renault,” Autun, 1896, p. 132.

^{page 535 note †} Fasc. iv. part ii., 1896, pp. 200, 208, pl. xxxvi. figs. 8–11, pl. xxxvii. figs. 3–7 and fig. 40 (Sig. Menardi), pl. xxxvi. figs. 2–5, pl. xli. figs. 4–11, 18–21, 23–26 (S. spinnlosa).

^{page 535 note ‡} L.c., p. 237, pl. xxxviii. figs. 1–3.

^{page 535 note §} Studies in Fossil Botany, p. 207, fig. 80, 1900.

^{page 535 note ∥} General, Morphological, and Histological Index to the Author's Collective Memoirs on the Fossil Plants of the Coal Measures. Part II. Mem. and Proc. Manchester Lit. and Phil.Soc., Session 1892–93, p. 35, 1893

^{page 535 note ¶} Pl. xxviii. figs. 33, 34.

^{page 535 note **} See, in addition to references already given, Renault, Cours d. botan. fossile, vol. ii., 1881. Potonié, Lehrbuch der Pflanzenpalæontologie, 1899. Zeiller, Élements de l'alcobotanique, 1900. Solms-Laubach, Fossil Botany (English translation), Oxford, 1891. Kidston, , “Carboniferous Lycopods and Sphenophylls,” Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc. Glasgow, vol. vi., new series, p. 101, 1891.Google Scholar

^{page 535 note ††} Weiss, , Trans. Linn. Soc. London, 2nd ser., Bot., vol. vi. part 4, pp. 217–230Google Scholar, pls. xxiii.-xxvi., 1903.

^{page 536 note *} König, Icones fossilium sectiles., London, pl. xvi. fig. 194.

^{page 536 note †} Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin., vol. xiv. pp. 186, 190, pl. vii.

^{page 537 note *} Loc. cit., pp. 220–221.

^{page 537 note †} Phil. Trans., 1872, p. 209.

^{page 538 note *} Phil. Trans., vol. clxxxiv. p. 20, 1893.

^{page 538 note †} Another portion of this specimen (Williamson, 1949A) is in the Wild Collection, Manchester Museum.

^{page 539 note *} Sternberg, Essai flore monde prim., vol. i. fasc. 4, pp. xiv, 48, pl. lii. fig. 4, 1826.

^{page 539 note †} See also Zeiller, Flore foss. Bassin houil. d. Valenciennes, p. 582, pl. lxxxvii. figs. 1–4, Atlas 1886, Text 1888.

^{page 542 note *} Memoir XIX., Phil. Trans., vol. clxxxiv. (1893), p. 33, pl. iv. fig. 38.

^{page 543 note *} Flore fossile, Bassin houiller et permien d'Autun et d'Épinac, Deux, part, Atlas, pl. xxxvii. fig. 6, 1893.

^{page 545 note *} Annals of Botany, vol. xiii. p. 607,1899.

^{page 545 note †} Loc. cit., p. 608.

^{page 545 note ‡} Fossil Botany, English ed., p. 252, fig. 29, 1891.

^{page 545 note §} Studies in Fossil Botany, p. 201, figs. 77–78, 1900.

^{page 546 note *} Renault, Bassin houiller et permien d'Autun et d'Épinac, Flore fossile, Deux, part, p. 238, 1896.

^{page 546 note †} It might be mentioned that Renault has described a Lepidodendron (L. Jutieri) in which the vascular system is formed of a circle of separate bundles. “Structure comparée de quelques tiges de la flore carbonifère” (in Nouv. Archives du Mus., ii., 2e sér., 1879, p. 258; also Renault, Cours d. bot. fos., vol. ii. p. 28, 1882.

^{page 546 note ‡} Trans. Roy. Soc. Edin., vol. xxxix. p. 907, pls. i.-iv., 1900.

^{page 546 note §} Seward and Hill, l.c., p. 914.

^{page 546 note ∥} From the discovery by Mr James Lomax of a specimen showing the outer surface of the bark, it has been shown that the Lepidodendron mundum, Williamson, is a Bothrodendron.

^{page 546 note ¶} Zeiller, Éléments paleobotanique, p. 178, 1900.

^{page 548 note *} See note on p. 546 (Lepidodendron Jutieri, Renault).

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