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No better example could perhaps be quoted of fossil plants which have given rise to a number of species and even genera founded on imperfect and fragmentary specimens than the Sigillariæ and Lepidodendra.
page 214 note 1 Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. vol. xvi. 5th series, p. 123.
page 214 note 2 Flore fossile du bassin houiller de Valenciennes, p. 512.
page 214 note 3 Einleitung in die Paläophytologie, p. 249.
page 215 note 1 Die Versteinerungen des Steinkohlengebirges von Wettin und Löbejün. taf. xxv.
page 216 note 1 loc. cit. p. 251.
page 216 note 2 3e sér. t. 17 (1889), p. 603.Google Scholar
page 216 note 3 Le terrain houiller du Nord de la France, p. 47.
page 216 note 4 Flore foss. du bassin houiller de Valenciennes, p. 513.
page 216 note 5 Ibid. p. 513.
page 217 note 1 loc. cit. pl. lxxxiv. fig. 1.
page 217 note 2 For figures of Weiss's species, v. “Die Sigillarien der Preussischen Steinkohlengebiete,” Abband. zur Geolog. Special-Karte von Preussen und den Thüringischen Staaten, Band VII. Heft. 3, Taf vii. and xiv.
page 218 note 1 “Fossilen Flora der jüngsten Steiukohlenformation und des Rothliegenden im Saar-Rhein-gebiete,” p. 182.
page 218 note 2 Parkinson figures a fragment of what appears to be Tylodendron; no locality is mentioned, see “Organic Remains of a Former World,” vol. i. pl. iii. fig. 4.
page 218 note 3 Fossilen Flora der jüngsten Steinkohlen, etc., p. 183.
page 218 note 4 “Ueber die fossile Planzen-Gattung Tylodendron.” Three plates accompany this paper, illustrating the external appearance and microscopic structure of Tylodendron.
page 218 note 5 “A Monograph on the Morphology and Histology of Stigmaria Ficoides. (PalæontograpLucal Society, 1887), pl. xiii. figs. 64 and 65.
page 218 note 6 Potonié, loc. cit. Taf. xiii. a.
page 219 note 1 Schimper et Mougeot, Plantes Fossiles du grès bigarrté, pt. I, tab. xiv. etc.
page 219 note 2 “Die Fossile Flora des Buntsandsteins und des Muschelkalks der Umgegend von Commem” (Palæontographiea, Band xxxii.), p. 135, taf. xxii. 18–20.