An Interesting Find. 



On a recent excursion to the quarries in Durham, which have 

 yielded from time to time so many interesting specimens of the 

 fauna of the Triassic rocks of Connecticut, H. H. Kendrick, a 

 member of the Meriden Scientific Association, brought away sev- 

 eral fossil specimens q{ \\\t. flora of that interesting period. The 

 first bears some resemblance to the fruit of the early conifers, but 

 is more likely that of a cycad — probably cycadites — having a round- 

 ed base and being pointed at the other extremity, with a structure 

 more nearly resembling a bud than a well defined nut. Another 

 piece of shale contains two impressions of a similar form. 



Another specimen is that of a plant akin to the calamite, 

 though with joints imperfectly defined ; probably one of the dwarfed 

 varieties that followed the period of the great coal plants. 



Another bit of shale contained small impressions of a similar 

 plant, though too fragmentary to be determined with any certainty; 

 while a small slab showed the wave or ripple marks indicative of a 

 shallow sea. 



J. H. C. 



