[sir J. vv. DAWSON] ON THE GENUS LEPIDOPHLOIOS 



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are similar to those on the smaller ordinary branches, and one of these 

 peduncles found separately, might be taken for a bi'anch of Lepidoden- 

 dron with a terminal cone. The peduncles are seen to bend downward, 

 owing to the weight of the cone. 



The internal structure is as yet unknown. 



I may have had fragments of the trunk and branches of this species 

 in my collections for many years without being able to distinguish them, 

 and indeed the smaller branches and peduncles would by most collectors 

 be placed with Lepidodendron, while fragments of the old stems and 

 branches in the Halonia condition, would scarcely be distinguishable from 

 corresponding portions of L. Acadianus. 



Fig. D. — Rough sketch of portion of L. Cliftonensis, as origixali.y seen 



AT Clifton, (reduced.) 



It first became known to me as a distinct species in the summer of 

 1876, when I made a short excursion along the northern ])art of New 

 Brunswick, and spent a day in New Bandon at the Clifton sandstone 

 quarries and the shore in that vicinity, to which I was attracted b}" the 

 fact that Sir William Logan had several years previously collected, in a 

 bed of shale under the sandstone quarried for grindstones, some well- 

 preserved ferns, SphenophyUn, and other plants which I had described in 

 " Acadian Geology" in 1868.' While collecting along the clitts near the 



1 Pp. 241 et seq. , 473 et seq. 



Sec. IV., 1897. 5. 



