132 Mr. A. S. Woodward on some 



fig. 2 (' Steinkohlen-Calamarienj' part ii.) ; but they are not 

 so regular. They may have originated from fungi j simiLar 

 formations occur on other plants. 



The above description and remarks have been forwarded 

 to me by Dr. Weiss, to whom I sent a sketch of the fossil 

 for his examination and description, as his knowledge of this 

 group of fossils is probably more intimate than that of any 

 other palffiobotanist, and especially when impressions of the 

 plant have to be dealt with. The most interesting point in 

 this fossil is the association of the character of Eucalamites 

 and the chain-like leaf-scars of Calaniitina on the same speci- 

 men. 



I am much indebted to Dr. Weiss for his kind assistance in 

 examining and describing this plant. 



Horizon. Middle Coal-measures ; in ironstone nodule in 

 shale above " Thick Coal." 



Locality. Shut End, between Himley and Kingswinford, 

 South Staffordshire. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE VII. 



Eucalamites hrita7inicus, Weiss, u. sp. (natural size). 



XIV. — Notes on some Vertebrate Fossils from the Province of 

 Baliia^ Brazil^ collected by Joseph Maivson^ Esq., F.G.S. 

 By A. Smith Woodward, F.G.S., F.Z.S., of the British 

 Museum (Natural History). 



So long ago as the time of Spix and Martius's travels * the 

 occurrence of vertebrate fossils in the rocks of Brazil had 

 been observed ; and during the preparation of his great work 

 upon the " Poissons Fossiles " Agassiz met with numerous 

 examples of fishes from the supposed Upper Cretaceous 

 deposits of the province of Ceara, of which he published two 

 brief notices j". Somewhat later J Mr. Allport made known 



* J. B. von Spix and C. F. vou Martins, ' Reise in Brasilien,' 1823-31, 

 Atlas, pi. xxii. fig. 5. 



t L. Agassiz, Appendix to G. Gardner's "Geological Notes made 

 during a Journey from the Coast into the Interior of the Province of Ceara, 

 in the North of Brazil," Edinb, New Phil. Journ, vol. xxx. (1841), p. 83. 

 Also " Sur quelques Poissons fossiles du Bresil," Comptes Rendus, vol. 

 xviii. (1844), pp. 1007-1015. 



X S. Allport (with notes by Egerton, Morris, and Rupert Jones), "On 

 the Discovery of some Fossil Remains near Bahia in South America," 

 Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. xvi. (1860), pp. 203-268, pis, xiv.-xvii. 



