80 Prof. F. Sclimitz on the The small fossils which I previously described and placed in the genus Schutzia are different from the present example, and their real claim to this genus may perhaps be open to question*. Scliufzia Benmeana comes so near the Permian species, that it is only after very careful consideration I have given it a specific designation f. It gives me pleasure to name this plant after Mr. J. Bennie, to whom I owe so much for kind assistance in many points connected with my study of fossil botany. Position and Locality. — In bituminous shale, water of Leith, opposite Kate's Mill, Midlothian ; Calciferous Sandstone series. Collected by Mr. James Bennie. IX. — On the Fertilization o/^/^e Floridete. By Prof. F. Schmitz. [Concluded from page 29.] V. The preceding description has by no means exhausted all the modifications presented by the process of fertilization and fructification in the Floridese, as is shown by tlie fact that in almost every fresh genus that I investigated I detected new modifications of the previously observed processes. It is also sufficiently demonstrated by Bornet's statements witli regard to Spyridia^ Callymenia^ Crouania^ and other genera which I have hitherto been unable to examine. But the most important modifications of these processes have probably been shown in the foregoing in the described genera, which belong to the most diflerent families of the Floridese. From this description it appears, however, that throughout^ in the fertilization of the Flovideai a material connexion exists between the male cell, the spermatium, and the cell wliich is developed into the sporigenous tissue of the cystocarp (the "nucleus" of systematic botany). A fertilizing influence of * Trans. Eoy. Soc. Ediub. vol. xxx. p. 545, pi. xxxi. figs. 10, 11, 12. t Scliimper thinks the (?) Triyonocarpus Bassleri, (lein. (Neues Jalirb. 1867, p. 288, pi. iii. fig. 4), is an analogous fruit, but speeidfally distinct (Traite d. Paleont. \€^€i. vol. ii. p. 358).
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