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FOSSILS FEOM GREAT BELL ISLAND. 

 Genus Eophyton, Torell. 



Fig. 1. Eophyton Linnxamim? TorelL Part of a slab of sandstone 

 with several fragments supposed to be of this species. 



The only specimen I have access to at present, is a slab of 

 sandstone, about 15 inches in length and 12 inches wide, on the 

 surface of which there are about thirty stems of the fossil. Most 

 of these lie across the stone in a direction nearly parallel to each 

 other. They appear to have been, when perfect, slender, cylin- 

 drical, straight, reed-like plants, about three lines in diameter, 

 with the surface longitudinally striated ; four striae upon an 

 average in the width of one line. Some of the stems, which 

 have been partially flattened by pressure, are coarsely grooved or 

 fluted ; but when the surface of such is perfect, the fine striae can 

 always be seen on the large ridges and in the furrows between 

 them. \Yhen pressed quite flat some of the stems only exhibit 

 the fine striae. T cannot see that any of the stems are branched. 

 One of them, which is pressed flat, is bifurcated, but I think 

 this due to the pressure, which has split the stem into two por- 

 tions. 



I refer this species as above, because it is impossible to distin- 

 guish it from some of the figures of the Swedish form. As it 

 occurs above the Pa radoxides beds, while the Swedish specimens, 

 have as yet, only been found below, it is most probably a dis- 

 tinct species. 



Eophyton Jukesi, spec. nov. 



In this species the stems are nine lines in diameter, cyliudri- 

 cal, straight or slightly flexuous. They are longitudinally stria- 

 ted, but the surface of the specimeus examined, are not suffi- 



