Open AccessOn medullosa pusilla
Author(s) -
D. H. Scott
Publication year - 1914
Publication title -
proceedings of the royal society of london. series b, containing papers of a biological character
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2053-9185
pISSN - 0950-1193
DOI - 10.1098/rspb.1914.0005
Subject(s) - notice , subject (documents) , fossil record , botany , order (exchange) , biology , ecology , geography , law , political science , computer science , library science , finance , economics
In the second edition of my ‘Studies in Fossil Botany,ʼ I referred in the following words to the fossil plant which forms the subject of this notice. “A very smallMedullosa (named provisionallyMedullosa pusilla ), the stem with the leaf-bases not exceeding 2 cm. in diameter, has since been found by Mr. P. Whalley, of Colne, Lancashire. The stem has three steles, and agrees very closely withM .anglica , except in size.”* In order to clear the ground for other observers, it now seems desirable to give some further account of this fossil, with the necessary illustrations. Though the plant differs in no important respect from the now well-known speciesM .anglica , it is of some interest, as probably the smallestMedullosa on record.