Box 25, Folder 4: Ferns III

Trichopteris gracilis, Hall- Fremonts' Report page 307. pl. 1. fig. 5.

Slender, stems numerous, flexuous, in a tuft, branched; branches numerous, slender, oblique, stronger than in T. filamentosa Resembles fern stems stripped of their foliage.

Carboniferous?

Lat 41 1/2 Long 111 deg. in light gray indurated clay.

5 Fern Pleuropterodeoe

Whittleseya elegans Newberry Annals of Sci. No 10 p 116-Lesquereux Geol. Penn 2p 855

[Irthosauthera Whittleseyi] Whittlesea elegans (N. sp.) Gen+ Stone flower C. Whittlesey Am. Jour Sc 2d ser vil 8 p 375 fig.

Leaves oblong rounded at base abruptly terminated, many nerved; nerves composed of fibers which unite at the top and extend a little beyond the parenchyma; no apparent mid rib; nerves regularly curved & converging to a point at the base, not uniform in number, varying from 18 to 26; a light slender but well defined stem has been found on some specimens, which is minutely striated,

L. 1.5 to 2.0 B 0.6 to 1.5

Stone flower-so called. [by]

Carboniferous

Chestnut Ridge Coal Mine, Tallmadge Summit Co. Ohio.