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I.—Plant Cuticles from the Coal-Measures of Britain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Lucy Wills
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Our knowledge of the structure of the cuticle of Coal-measure plants is very meagre in comparison with the amount of information recently published as to the cuticular characters of Mesozoic genera. So far as I know, no detailed descriptions have been published of the cuticles of British Palæozoic plants. Professor Zeiller1 has described a few cuticles of French Carboniferous plants, and Dr. Huth2 recently gave an account of the cuticle of Mariopteris muricata, but very little has so far been attempted in this branch of research. The present preliminary account deals with material obtained by Mr. L. J. Wills from the Middle Coal-measures of the Denbighshire Coal-field near Chirk and from the Old Hill Marls (Etruria Marls ?) in the Upper Coal-measures of South Staffordshire. The cuticles are preserved as brown films in clayey shales, approaching fireclays in composition, none having yet been found in carbonaceous or sandy shales. It is hoped that this note will incite collectors to search for further specimens in this state of preservation.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 1 , Issue 9 , September 1914 , pp. 385 - 390
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1914

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page 385 note 1 R. Zeiller, Houille et Perm d'Autun et d'Epinac, p. 115.

page 385 note 2 Huth, W.Palœobot. Zeitsch., Bd. i, pp. 7—14, 1912.Google Scholar

page 385 note 3 For details of this method see Nathorst, A.GPalœobot. Zeitsch., Bd. i, p. 26, 1912, and H. H. Thomas and N. Bancroft, Trans. Linn. Soc., vol. viii, pt. v, p. 157.Google Scholar

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page 389 note 3 Warming, E., Ecology of Plants, English trans., 1909, p. 101.Google Scholar

page 390 note 4 G. Haberlaudt, op. cit., pp. 445, 451.

page 390 note 1 H. H. Thomas and N. Bancroft, op. cit., pp. 155–204.