. Fossil plants : for students of botany and geology . Paleobotany. 376 FILICALES [CH. of Polypodiaceous ferns. On the other hand, as we have already noticed, anatomical characters of such families as the Gleicheni- aceae, Hymenophyllaceae, and Schizaeaceae are met with in certain generalised Palaeozoic types. These facts are perhaps of some importance as supplying collateral evidence in favour of the relatively more recent origin of the dominant family of ferns in modern floras. The use of the generic name Adiantites for fern-like fronds of Lower Carboniferous age characterised by cuneate. Fi
. Fossil plants : for students of botany and geology . Paleobotany. 376 FILICALES [CH. of Polypodiaceous ferns. On the other hand, as we have already noticed, anatomical characters of such families as the Gleicheni- aceae, Hymenophyllaceae, and Schizaeaceae are met with in certain generalised Palaeozoic types. These facts are perhaps of some importance as supplying collateral evidence in favour of the relatively more recent origin of the dominant family of ferns in modern floras. The use of the generic name Adiantites for fern-like fronds of Lower Carboniferous age characterised by cuneate. Fig. 279. A. Adiantides antiquns (Ett.). (J nat. size.) B. A. Lindsayoides (Sew.). (B' nat. size.) (A, after Kidston.) pinnules like those of species oi Adiantum, suggests an affinity which is in all probability non-existent. It has been pointed out that this generic name was applied in the first instance to the leaves of the Jurassic plant Ginkgo digitata^ and should, therefore, be discarded. Schimper- used the designation Adiantides, and Ettingshausen^, more rashly than wisely, pre- ferred Adiantum. The specimens described by Kidston* as ' Goeppert (30) A. p. 217. â '' Ettingshaufen (66). = Schimper (69) A. p. 424. â * Kidston (89^) 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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