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THE CARBONIFEROUS SYSTEM. 



Pecopteris oreopteroides (?) Neuropteris auriculata. 



Peccpteris Doumaisii, or allied. Spheuopteris decipiens (?) 



Neuropteris flexuosa. Cyclopteris fimbriata. 

 Neuropteris rarinervis. 



Asterophyllites equisetiforrnis. 



Sphenophyllum — a species with seven or eight long narrow leaflets, 

 each with about eight nerves. I have fragments of the same 

 from Sydney. It is probably new, and is certainly different 

 from the other species referred to in the text. It may be 

 named S. Pooli. 



Cordaites borassifolia. Lepidodendron like tetragonum. 



Lepidodendron elegans. Lepidophyllum lanceolatum. 



Associated with these plants are abundant valves of Naiadites 

 elongatus, and also scales of small ganoid fishes and cyprids. 



The flora represented by this collection is very like that of Sydney, 

 more especially in the number of ferns and the species of those present ; 

 and it is probable that this resemblance will be found to extend 

 throughout the Coal-field of Eastern Cape Breton. It is a strictly 

 Middle Coal formation assemblage, though having the facies of the 

 upper part of that series, to which the Glace Bay beds would, on 

 stratigraphical grounds, be referred. 



