SECTION IV, 1912 [83] Trans. R. 8. C. 
A New Flora in the Older Palwozoic Rocks of Southern New Brunswick, 
Canada. 
By G. F. Marrnew, LL.D., D. Se. 
(Read May 16, 1912). 
Synopsis. 
This flora was found in shales intercalated with sandstones and 
conglomerates near the base of the Silurian terrane in Charlotte county, 
N.B., and is older than the well known plant beds of the Fern Ledges 
St. John, though in the same terrane. 
No great variety of species has been found in this flora, in fact 
only two well defined species have been distinguished, but the remains 
of these are abundant. One species is determinable as of a new genus 
allied to Psilophyton, but differing in the fruit, and in other respects. 
Its rhizomes, leaves, fruit stalks, and fruit have been recognized. The 
leaves though now flattened appear to have been thick and fleshy in the 
living state. The fruiting stalks are stout and woody, and are much 
branched toward the summit, where they terminate in numerous short 
peduncles bearing minute seeds or fruits. These are usually detached 
from the stem, and so appear to have fallen when ripe. 
The species of this flora which in the number of examples preserved 
and in the completeness of the preservation of its parts, comes nearest 
to the above species is one with an irregularly noded stem. It has a 
very imperfect “skeleton of support,” and thus often appears much dis- 
torted in the shale. It is intimately mingled in the shale bed with the 
preceding, but is distinguished by its mode of branching and by the 
greater flexibility of the stems. 
Another common species in this shale is represented by numbers 
of branching stems with irregular longitudinal ridges resembling the 
stems of Psilophyton as figured by Sir William J. Dawson, but as no 
fruits of this genus have been found these remains cannot be definitely 
assigned to that genus. 
The history of the discovery of this plant horizon is somewhat as 
follows:—In the summer of 1909 the writer visited Beaver harbour in 
search of some rare plant remains that had been noticed nearly half 
a century ago, when the present writer was working on the Canadian 
Geological Survey in Charlotte county. These plant remains, leaves of 
