. 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. PSYGMOPHYLLUM. 213 difference of opinion as to its precise affinities. Schimper included it with the Oreads, while in more recent years Zeiller,1 Seward, and others have provisionally referred it to the Ginkgoales. Mr. Seward2 has remarked that we have little evidence on this point beyond a not very close resemblance between these leaves and those of the genus Ginkgo. The same author has compa


. 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. PSYGMOPHYLLUM. 213 difference of opinion as to its precise affinities. Schimper included it with the Oreads, while in more recent years Zeiller,1 Seward, and others have provisionally referred it to the Ginkgoales. Mr. Seward2 has remarked that we have little evidence on this point beyond a not very close resemblance between these leaves and those of the genus Ginkgo. The same author has compared Feistniantel's Euryphyllum Whittianum, here referred to the genus Noeggerathiopsis, with the members of this genus. Distribution.— Carboniferous of England, Spitzbergen, Germany. Permian of Russia, France. Per mo - Carboniferous (Glossopteris flora), Cape Colony and ? 47.—Psygmaphyllum Kidatoni, Seward. After Seward, h nat. sixe- 1. Psygmophyllum Kidstoni, Seward. (Text-fig. 47.) 1903. Psygmophyllum Kidstoni, Seward, Ann. S. African Mus., , , p. 93, pi. xii, fig. 1. Tgpe. South African Mus., Cape Town. 1 Zeiller (001), p. 251. Seward (031), 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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