Box 25, Folder 3: Ferns II

Fruit of Lepidodendron

Genus Lepidostrobus, Brongniart.

Catkins cylindrical, composed of winged sporanges, attached to a common axis and imbricated.

(Lepidophyllum = separate leaves or scales of Lepidostrobus)

Lepidostrobus ornatus, Lindl. & Hutt.

Foss Fl. 1 p 163, t 26

Lesq. Geol Penn 2 p 876

Catkins cylindrical, about an inch broad, with a thick woody axis.

Coal Measures

Penna

Lepidostrobus pineaster, Lindl. + Hutt

Foss Fl. 3 p t. 198

Lesq. Geol. Penn 2 p 876 -

Catkins small, cylindrical 2 inches long, scales rhomboidal

Coal Measures

Penna

Lepidostrobus variabilis Lindl. + Hutt.

Foss Fl. 1 t 10, 11

Lesq. Geol Penn 2 p 876

Catkins cylindrical or oval = =obtuse; scales acute, densely imbricated

Coal Measures

Pennsylvania

Genus Lycopodites, Brongniart -

Veg. Fos.

Am. Jour. Sc. Vol. 7 p. 180.

Leaves linear or setaceous, without nerves, or [ter] traversed by a single nerve, inserted all round the stem, or on two rows. In the Carbonaceous species the leaves are setaceous, arranged in two rows and do not appear to leave reticulated impressions.

Gr. hvnos, a wolf & novs a foot.