On the Circinate Vernation, Fructification, and Varieties of Sphenopteris affinis , and on Staphylopteris (?) Peachii of Etheridge and Balfour, a Genus of Plants new to British Rocks

Abstract

Staphylopteris (?) has been found by myself in the “blaes” (once in an ironstone nodule amongst the “blaes”), rather plentiful at West Hermand, West Calder; by Mr. Bennie, fossil-collector for the Geological Survey of Scotland, in shales at Currie, near Slateford; at Straiton, near Burdiehouse, in a piece of shale at the oil-shale pit, by Mr. D. J. Brown, of Edinburgh, and Mr. Bennie. All these localities are in the Calciferous Sandstones of the Carboniferous formation of Scotland.