288 Organic Remans of the Ferrugmous 
ZOOPHYTES. 
ANTHOPHYLLUM. Schweigg. 
A. atlanticum. (S.G.M.) This genus, a Linnean madrepore, is 
common jn the limestone of Gloucester county, N. J. Its form is cyl 
indrical, pr subconical, seldom exceeding three fourths of an inch in 
length, and is about one third less in diameter. It is formed of lon- 
gitudinal septa, or plates, which diverge from a central nucleus. 
Each individual is attached by its base, and is surrounded on the re- 
maining sides by a large cavity. Faujas, in his history of the moun- 
tain of St. Pierre, pl. 37, fig. 3, and pl. 38, fig. 1, and_5,, gives 
drawings of some fossils which appeared to be generically the same 
with those from. New Jersey. But I derive the characters of the ge- 
nus Anthophyllum from the splendid work of Dr. Goldfuss, tab. 13, 
fig. 11. The specimen delineated by that naturalist is stated to be 
from neensens limestone near the Falls of Niagara. 
; ESCHARA. Lam. 
2ent of this genus ( millepora, Lin.) are of frequent occur 
rence } fossil last described. They bear considerable general 
resemblance te a species in Ellis’s Nat. Hist. of corallines, pl, 28, fig. 1. 
FLUsTRA. Lam. 
Abundant in the same matrix with the preceding genera, and is 
nearly allied to the species figured by Ellis, pl. 29, fig. a. 
RETEPORA. Lam. 
_ Found with the preceding fossils, in hard calcareous rock. It is 
well represented by a species from Maestricht, delineated in Faujas, 
pl. 39, fig. 3, who calls it a Gorgonia. Dr. Goldfuss figures a spe 
cimen, of the same fossil, pl. 9 , fig. 12, also from Maestricht, to which 
lie give: s the name of Retepora clathrata. 
cARYOPHYLLIA. Lam. 
“Foun though rarely, in the blue marl of, ech county, N. J. 
ALCYONIUM. 
sf eit in the green sand below Annapolis, i in Maryland. A fossil 
hich I believe to belong to this family, is of frequent occurrence } in 
the calcareous beds of New Jérsey, and has also been found in blue. 
marl at St. George’s, in Delaware. It most resembles some specimens 
parsed Mr. Webster i in the second Vol. of the Transactions of 
the Geological of London. ~ 
