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26 FOSSIL COAL PLANTS. 



FOSSIL PLANTS FROM THE OHIO COAL BASIN. 



BY J. S. NEWBERRY, M. D. 



Read before the Cleveland Academy of Natural Science, January 1853, and 

 at Subsequent Meetings. 



The following catalogue is not intended fully to represent 

 the Fossil Flora of Ohio, of which the species enumerated 

 probably form but a small part, but only 4ncludes such 

 species as have, up to the present time, been collected in this 

 State by Col. Charles Whittlesey, — who has kindly com- 

 mitted his fine collection to me for examination — or myself. 



The species contained in this list are mostly from the 

 rocks associated with the lowest stratum of coal in the Ohio 

 basin, along the line of its northern outcrop — a region which 

 furnishes a greater number and variety of fossil plants than 

 any other with which I am acquainted of equal geograph- 

 ical extent and geological range. 



The fossils from this region include many new and 

 interesting forms, and are generally beautifully preserved, 

 exhibiting none of that distortion of form, or obliteration of 

 details of structure, so common in those derived from local- 

 ities nearer the centres of igneous action. 



CALAMITES — SUCKOW. 



1. C. Su.ckowu,Brongm2ii% Htstoire des Vegetaiix Fossiles^ 

 Tab. 15. 



The most common species in Northern Ohio. Fine speci- 

 mens occur in the carboniferous conglomerate at Cuyahoga 

 Falls. The superior termination is not rare, and the root is 

 sometimes found, agreeing closely with Lindley & Hutton's 

 figure, Vol. I., Tab. 78. 



2. 0. ramosus, Artis, Ant. Pliyt., Tab. 2. 



Frequently found in the roof of the coal mines at Cuya- 

 hoga Falls. I have a compressed specimen from that local- 

 ity six inches in diameter, joints about three inches apart, 

 beautifully marked, with its characteristic cicatrices. 



