. Fossil plants : for students of botany and geology . Paleobotany. 570 PTERrOOSPERMS, ETC. [CH. Neuropteris Scheuchzeri, Hoffmann. Figs. 354, F; 373. Fragments of this well-known Coal-Measure species were figured by Scheuchzer in his Herbarium Diluvianum^ as Lithos- miinda minor, and by Lhywd (Luidius°) as Phyllites mineralis as early as 1760. Neuropteris Scheuchzeri, so named by Hoffmann in 1826, is a type which many authors have described under different names. Lesquereux^ figured it as N. hirsuta from the Coal-fields of Pennsylvania, and under the same name it is recorded by Fontaine and W
. Fossil plants : for students of botany and geology . Paleobotany. 570 PTERrOOSPERMS, ETC. [CH. Neuropteris Scheuchzeri, Hoffmann. Figs. 354, F; 373. Fragments of this well-known Coal-Measure species were figured by Scheuchzer in his Herbarium Diluvianum^ as Lithos- miinda minor, and by Lhywd (Luidius°) as Phyllites mineralis as early as 1760. Neuropteris Scheuchzeri, so named by Hoffmann in 1826, is a type which many authors have described under different names. Lesquereux^ figured it as N. hirsuta from the Coal-fields of Pennsylvania, and under the same name it is recorded by Fontaine and White ^ from Permian rocks of Virginia. The oval patches on the surface of a pinnule de- scribed by these authors as sori are certainly not of that nature. The same species is described by Bunbury* from Nova Scotia. Fig. 373. Neuropteris Scheuchzeri. From a specimen (v. 2009) in the British Museum, j nat. size. as N. cordata Brongn. var. angustifolia. For a full synonymy of the species reference should be made to lists published by Kidston«, White', and Zeiller^. The large tripinnate fronds are characterised by the long linear- or oval-lanceolate pinnules (fig. 373)° with a pointed apex and numerous bristle-like hairs on the lamina ; two much smaller Cyclopteroid segments occur at the base of the pinnae which are terminated by the linear leaflets (fig. 354, F, p. 535). Neuropteris Scheuchzeri is characteristic of the Upper and Middle Coal-Measures of Britain and is recorded from several 1 Scheuchzer (1723) A. p. 129, PI. x. fig. 3. 2 Lhywd (1760) A. PI. v. fig. 190. 3 Lesquereux (79) A. PI. viii. " Fontaine and White (80) p. 47. 6 Bunbury (47) PI. xxi. « Kidston (94) p. 357; (03) p. 806. ' White (99) p. 132. a Zeiller (88) A. p. 251. » See Vol. i. p. 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 wor
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