. Fossil plants : for students of botany and geology . Paleobotany. IX] EQUISETITES PLATYODON. 267 described and figured by Lindley and Hutton^ as Hippurites gigantea, and now usually spoken of as Galamitma, should be named Equisetites. It would probably be better to adopt the name Galamitina for the French species. The type-specimen of this species is in the Natural History Museum, Fig. 59. Equisetites platyodon Bmngn. (After Schoenlein, slightly reduced.) When we pass from the Peimian to the Triassic period, we find large easts of very modern-looking Equisetaceous stems which must cl
. Fossil plants : for students of botany and geology . Paleobotany. IX] EQUISETITES PLATYODON. 267 described and figured by Lindley and Hutton^ as Hippurites gigantea, and now usually spoken of as Galamitma, should be named Equisetites. It would probably be better to adopt the name Galamitina for the French species. The type-specimen of this species is in the Natural History Museum, Fig. 59. Equisetites platyodon Bmngn. (After Schoenlein, slightly reduced.) When we pass from the Peimian to the Triassic period, we find large easts of very modern-looking Equisetaceous stems which must clearly be referred to the genus Equisetites. The portion of a stem represented in fig. 59 known as Equisetites platyodon Brongn.^ affords an example of a Triassic Equi- setaceous stem with a clearly preserved leaf-sheath. The stem measures about 6 cm. in diameter. One of the oldest known Triassic species is Equisetites Mougeoti^ (Brongn.) from the Bunter series of the Vosges. 1 Lindley and Hutton (31) PI. oxiv. 2 Schoenlein and Schenk (65) PI. v. fig. 1. 3 Sohimper and Mougeot (44) p. 58, PI. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Seward, A. C. (Albert Charles), 1863-1941. Cambridge : University Press
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