. Fossil plants : for students of botany and geology . Paleobotany. 170 PTEBIDOSPEBMS L^^- drawn attention to a note by Prof. Duns published in 1872 on the juxtaposition of seeds and fronds, and Mr Howse^ in his Catalogue of the Hutton plants considers that the seeds were borne on the Eremopteris leaves; in his synonymy of E. artemisae- folia he includes Ca/rdiocar'po-n acutum Lind. and Hutt. as the 'spore-cases or sporangia.' The Eremofteris seeds are of the platyspermic (Samaropsis) type, broadly oval and about 7 Fig. 443. Eremopteris artemisaefolia. A, part of a frond with associated s
. Fossil plants : for students of botany and geology . Paleobotany. 170 PTEBIDOSPEBMS L^^- drawn attention to a note by Prof. Duns published in 1872 on the juxtaposition of seeds and fronds, and Mr Howse^ in his Catalogue of the Hutton plants considers that the seeds were borne on the Eremopteris leaves; in his synonymy of E. artemisae- folia he includes Ca/rdiocar'po-n acutum Lind. and Hutt. as the 'spore-cases or sporangia.' The Eremofteris seeds are of the platyspermic (Samaropsis) type, broadly oval and about 7 Fig. 443. Eremopteris artemisaefolia. A, part of a frond with associated seeds of Samaropsis acuta; B, rhizome with fragments of fronds; C, pinnule, (Drawn by Mr L. D. Sayers from specimens in the Hutton Collection, New- castle. A, B, f nat. size.) long with an obtuse base and two shghtly divergent acute processes at the apex (fig. 444). Some specimens in Dr Kidston's collection from the Lower Coal Measures of Midlothian, which were associated with Eremopteris fronds, are preserved as mummified cuticular membranes and on microscopical examination they show clearly the presence of a pollen-chamber. The seeds are of the Sama- ropsis type. The drawings reproduced in fig. 444 were made for me by Dr Kidston from two specimens, in his collection, 1 Howse (88) 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 Seward, A. C. (Albert Charles), 1863-1941. Cambridge : University Press
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