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On the Pre-carboniferous Flora oj 



but of which I have recently obtained better specimens which 

 induce me to propose for it the name of — 



Selaginites formosus, — S, n. 



Fig. 11. — Fragment of shale from Gasp^. 



(a) Selaginites formosus. (b) Smaller specimen of the same. 

 Cordaites angustifolia. (d) Psilophyton princeps. 



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Fig. 12. — Selaginites formosus. 



(a) Small specimen magnified, (b) Scale of larger specimen mag- 

 nified. 



Description. — Stems covered with flat broad angular imbricating scales 

 of unequal size, and ornamented with minute scaly points. 



The original specimen of this curious plant was a fragment of 

 the bark on sandstone in the collection of Sir W. E. Logan. I 

 have since discovered in the bituminous shale overlying the 

 Devonian coal of Gaspe, and which abounds in vegetable frag- 

 ments, several portions of flattened stems showing the characters 

 more perfectly. The different sizes of the fragments and of the 

 scales that clothe them would indicate that it was a branching or 

 dichotomous plant. Their condition of preservation shows that 



