. Catalogue of the fossil plants of the Glossopteris flora in the Department of geology. Paleobotany -- Carboniferous; Paleobotany -- Catalogs and collections; Plants, Fossil -- Catalogs and collections. rnTLLOTHECA. 27 of 2-5-3 cm. The free segments are reduced to very short teeth, 3 mm. in length, and are twenty-three or more in number. A nerve traverses the sheath to each tooth, between the nerves there is a "faint groove or depression," and also "the finest possible transverse striae, arranged in a festoon-like ; !. Fig. 9.—Phyllotheca Etheridgei, sp. nov. Alter
. Catalogue of the fossil plants of the Glossopteris flora in the Department of geology. Paleobotany -- Carboniferous; Paleobotany -- Catalogs and collections; Plants, Fossil -- Catalogs and collections. rnTLLOTHECA. 27 of 2-5-3 cm. The free segments are reduced to very short teeth, 3 mm. in length, and are twenty-three or more in number. A nerve traverses the sheath to each tooth, between the nerves there is a "faint groove or depression," and also "the finest possible transverse striae, arranged in a festoon-like ; !. Fig. 9.—Phyllotheca Etheridgei, sp. nov. Alter Etheridge. Nat. size. The chief characters of this species are the short free teeth, and the sheath, clasping at the base, but expanding distally into an open and spreading disc-like structure. Etheridge has compared this species with the genus Cingularia, "Weiss, in the characters of the leaf-sheath. Zeiller2 has already Etheridge (95), p. 151. Zeiller (02'), 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 British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Geology; Arber, E. A. Newell (Edward Alexander Newell), 1870-1918. London, Printed by order of the Trustees
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