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the specimens collected by Messrs Binney and Kirkby, 
I have not seen any fossil plants from them. ‘These fossils 
were kindly submitted to me by Mr Kirkby, and from their 
examination I have been able to correlate these red shales 
(the d°’ of the Geological Survey) with the Middle Coal- 
Measures of England." 
Mr Kirkby has kindly provided me with the accompanying 
section of the Fife Coal-Measures, on which are marked the 
beds in these red measures from which the fossil plants have 
chiefly been collected. The numbers given at the side of the 
section correspond to those given in the detailed section 
which accompanies the paper in the Quarterly Journal of 
the Geological Society. 
The following are the plants collected :— 
Bed 16: 
Alethopteris aquilina, Schl. sp. 
Bed 21: 
Rhabdocarpus sulcatus, Pres]. sp. 
Bed 24: 
Neuropterts rarinervis, Bunbury. 
Bed 28: 
Calamites ramosus, Artis. 
- Suckowwt, Brongt. 
Calamocladus equisetiformis, Schl. sp. 
Sphenophyllum emarginatum (%), Brongt. 
Note.—Two small and fragmentary specimens, 
_ but probably belonging to this species. 
Pecopteris Miltoni (1), Artis. 
Note.—Specimens fragmentary, but I have 
little doubt as to their identity with this plant. 
Alethopteris aquilina, Schl. sp. 
Note.—Very plentifal. 
Mariopteris muricata, Schl. sp. 
Neuropteris Scheuchzeri, Hoftm. 
3 rarinervis, Bunbury. 
"I did not see these fossils till after the publication of Messrs Binney and 
Kirkby’s paper—the perusal of which was the first notice I had of their 
discovery. From the examination of the original specimens, I found that in 
several cases they had been misnamed, and it was only after correcting these 
errors of identification that the true position of these red beds was discovered. 
