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rich and others in Lincoln and Boyle counties, Kentucky. Ex- 

 amples were collected by the writer during the past summer 

 from the lowest beds of the Fairmount division of the Maysville 

 group in railroad cuts about half way between Million and Rich- 

 mond, Ky. 



DEKAYIA ASPERA EDWARDS AND HAIME. 



Plate 3, fig. 4. 

 Dekayia aspera: Edwards and Haimc, Polypiers fossiles des Terrains paleo- 



zoiques, p. 278, pi. xvi, 2, 2a, 1851. 

 Dekayia aspera. UJrich, Jour. Cincinnati Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 6, p. 148, pi. 



vi, 5, 1883. 

 Dekayia attrita. Nicholson, Paleozoic Tabulate Corals, p. 298, pi. xv, 1-lc, 



1879. 

 For full synonymy consult Bulletin of the U. S. Geological Survey, no. 173, 



p. 228. 



Zoarium ramose; branches aubcylindrical, from 6 to 12 mm. 

 in diameter. Surface smooth, or with but little elevated mac- 

 ulae; when well preserved, roughened by the strong acantho- 

 pores. Apertures polygonal, with thin interspaces. No meso- 

 pores. Zoo3cial tubes thin-walled, and with very few dia- 

 phragms. 



Occurrence : A common and characteristic form of the Fair- 

 mount beds of the Maysville group in northern Kentucky. 



CONSTEI.LARIA FLORIDA ULRICH. 



Plate 3, fig. 5. 

 Constellaria florida. Ulrieh, Jour. Cincinnati Soc. Nat Hist., vol. 5, p. 257, 



1882; Hid., vol. 0, p. 267, pi. xiv, 2-2f, 1SS3. 



For full synonymy see under Constellaria constellata (Van Cleve) Dana in 

 Bulletin U. S. Geological Surrey, no. 173, p. 213, 1900. 



This form is so closely like Constellaria prominens that a de- 

 tailed description would be mainly repetition. On the whole, 

 the stellate areas are not so prominent, and are a trifle smaller. 

 In growth it is more truly frondescent. 



At the time that the synonymy given in Nickles and Bassler's 

 Synopsis of American Fossil Bryozoa (Bulletin U. S. Geolog- 

 ical Survey, No. 173, p. 228) was prepared, the paper by Van 

 Cleve, which appeared in volume 1 of the Proceedings of the 



