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INSECTS OF NEW BRUNSWICK. 39 



Coarse sandstone, full of obscure casts of Sternhergiae and Calamiies . 6 feet 6 inches. 

 Soft shale and fissile sandstone, with Calamites ..... 



Sandstones ............ 2 feet 



Shale Avith obscure remains of plants ....... 



Sandstones, barren, so far as examined ...... 4 feet 10 



Sandstone and shale, with a few Calamites and Cordaites ... 9 



Sandstone and coarse shale, with obscure markings .... 5 feet 10 



Light greenish, coarse shale, with fern-stems, Cordaites, and obscure 



markings, CarpoUtes {1) ........ . 7 



Sandstones and coarse shales, with badly preserved vegetable remains 18 feet 9 



Plant-bed No. 4. . , 1 foot 



Coarse shales, affording at the point where the line of section crosses it : — 



Cordaites Rohhii Daws. — Calamites transitionls Goeppt. — Neuropteris polymorpha 



Daws. — Psilopjhyton glahrum, Daws. — Pimmlaria dispalans Daws. 

 I have examined at two different points, in the eastern part of this locality, a bed 

 which appears to correspond to this. It is characterized there by a very beautiful Neu- 

 ropderls ^ (iV. Daiosoni Hartt) with long linear lanceolate pinnules decurrent on the rachis, 

 to which they form a broad wing. The pinnules are often four inches in leno-th. This 

 is one of the most beautiful ferns occurring at the locality. Several other new forms are 

 associated with it. Among these is a magnificent Cardiocarpum, nearly two inches in 

 diameter ((7. Baileyi Daws.). 

 Sandstone with obscure markings ....... 9 feet 6 inches. 



Plant-bed No. 5 ... 6 inches. 



Soft, fine-grained light-greenish shale. 



Cordaites Rohhii Daws. Extremely abundant. — Calamites cannaeformis Brongn. 

 Found occasionally. — Psilojjhyton (?) glahrum Daws. — (?) Asterop)hylUtes acicidaris 

 Daws. — Aletlioj)teris dlscrepans Daws. Quite abundant. — Sphenojyteris marginata 

 Daws. Quite abundant. — Pecopteris, sp. nov. (?) — Hymenophjllites sp. (?) — Neurop- 

 teris polymorpha Daws. Very abundant — Spirorhis occurs in the bed, attached to 

 the leaves of Cordaites. I have never detected it in any of the beds higher up. 

 Compact flaggy sandstones and coarse shales, with a few plants. ... 8 feet. 



Plant-bed No. 6. 2 feet. 



Fine-grained and light-coloured shale, with great abundance of Cordaites Rohhii, and 

 Calamites transitionis ; above that a layer of coarse shale, with Cordaites and stems of 

 plants badly preserved ; then a layer of soft, very friable shale, with few fossils ; and lastly, 

 a layer of coarse shale of a greenish-gray colour, with : — 



Alethopteris discrepans Daws. Abundant. — Cordaites Rohhii Daws. Abundant. — 



Calamites cannaeformis Brongn. — Neuropteris polymorpha Daws. — Cardiomrpnm 



cormdum Daws. — Cardiocarpum ohVupium Daws. — Pecopteris, sp. nov. Occurs 



abundantly in some of the overlying beds. 



Sandstones and coarse shales, with abundance of plant remains, principally Cordaites 



and Calamites ............ 5 feet. 



' This plant belongs to a new genus, subsequently named Megalopteris. Report on devonian plants of Canada, 1871. 



