XII.—On the Structure of Samaropsis scotica Calder (emended) and Eurystoma angulare gen. et sp. nov., Petrified Seeds from the Calciferous Sandstone Series of Berwickshire

Abstract

The Lower Carboniferous seed Samaropsis scotica Calder has been re-investigated from new material and assigned to a new genus Lyrasperma. It is shown to have a nucellar apex with a pollen chamber and a funnel-like structure interpreted as an expanded salpinx. The free parts of the two integumental lobes diverge as apical horns; there is therefore no micropyle. Eurystoma angulare gen. et sp. nov. possesses a similar nucellar apex but is usually quadrangular in section and has four apical lobes. The new genera are placed in the group Lagenostomales although the expanded salpinx is a character new to that group.