. Fossil plants : for students of botany and geology . Paleobotany. IX] EQUISETITES LATERALIS. 275 It is impossible to give a satisfactory diagnosis of this species without better material. The plant is characterised chiefly by the great breadth of the stem, and by the possession of leaf-sheaths consisting of numerous long and narrow seg- ments. Equisetites Beani must have almost equalled in size the Triassic species, E. arenaceus, described above. 7. Equisetites lateralis Phill. Figs. 58, F, 63, and 64. This species is described at some length as affording a useful illustration of the mi-^lea
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. Fossil plants : for students of botany and geology . Paleobotany. IX] EQUISETITES LATERALIS. 275 It is impossible to give a satisfactory diagnosis of this species without better material. The plant is characterised chiefly by the great breadth of the stem, and by the possession of leaf-sheaths consisting of numerous long and narrow seg- ments. Equisetites Beani must have almost equalled in size the Triassic species, E. arenaceus, described above. 7. Equisetites lateralis Phill. Figs. 58, F, 63, and 64. This species is described at some length as affording a useful illustration of the mi-^leading character of certain features which. ^ /^ Fig. 63. Equisetites lateralis Phill. From a specimen in the British Museum. Slightly reduced. are entirely due to methods of preservation. The specific name was proposed by Phillips in his first edition of the Geology of 18—2. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.. Seward, A. C. (Albert Charles), 1863-1941. Cambridge : University Press