LOWER SANDSTONE SERIES. 



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slaty stone at Brandsby. The most characteristic of these are gervillia 

 acuta, crassina minima, and jrostellaria composita ? On the contrary, 

 belemnites abbreviatus seems to belong to the lower portion of the rock. 

 It appears to me that the slaty stone, in the Yorkshire district, is of 

 limited and uncertain occurrence, and, from some former investigations 

 in Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire, I suppose it is generally the 

 case. I must defer my remarks on the distribution of the fossils which 

 belong to this rock, till after the catalogue of those in the inferior oolite 

 or dogger. 



FOSSILS OF THE LOWER CARBONACEOUS SANDSTONE 



AND SHALE. 



THESE consist wholly of the remains of plants belonging to the mo- 

 nocotyledonous families, lycopodinea*, equisetaceae, filices, cycadese, and 

 palrtise, (Sternberg.) 



Equisetum. 1. columnare (Brongniart) 



(Young and Bird, PI. III. fig. 4, 5, 6.) 



Brong. Veg. fossiles, PI. XIII. 



2. laterale 

 Lycopodites uncifolius 



Thuites expansus ? (Sternberg) 

 Scolopendrium solitarium 



Sphsenopteris. 1. muscoides 

 2. stipata 



? 3. lanceolata 



High Whitby, Stainton 

 cliffs, Haiburn Wyke, 

 Cleveland hills, Brora in 

 Sutherland. 

 Balbronn, Gemonval, Studt- 



gard, &c. 



PI. X. fig. 13. Saltwick. 

 PL VIII. fig. 3. Saltwick & Haiburn Wyke, 

 and in the upper carbon- 

 aceous shale. 



PL X. fig. 11. Ditto. 



PL VIII. fig. 5. Saltwick, and in the upper 



carbonaceous shale. 

 PL X. fig. 10. Saltwick. 



fig. 8. Egton Moors, Saltwick, 

 Haiburn Wyke, and in the 

 upper carbonaceous sha e. 

 fig. 6. Saltwick. 



? 4. undulata (Young and Bird, PI. I. fig. 3.) Ditto. ? 



