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CANADIAN FOSSILS. 



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were from Prof. Hall's New York collections 

 found the species in Gaspd. 



but Prof. Bell has since 



Of the above stigmaroid roots, that referred to, S. perlata, is of large 

 size and has its rootlets attached, as if in situ. It must have belonged to 

 a Sigillaria of large dimensions, or to a plant allied to the Kiltorcan 

 Cyclostigma. It is from the Fern Ledges at St. John, in which, as yet, 

 no stem of Sigillaria has been discovered, except somewhat obscure 

 fragments, and that on which I founded the species S. palpebra. The other 

 species of Stigmaria, noticed above, are all of small dimensions, correspond, 

 ing in this respect with the slender character of the majority of the stems 

 hitherto found in the Erian beds. 



19. 



Leaves of SiQiLLARiiE. 



Cyperites, sp.— (Plate III, Figs 36 to 38).— M. D., Akron, Ohio. 

 M.D., St John, New Brunswick. U. D., Perry, Maine. 



Leaves of Sigillarise, precisely similar to the so-called Oyperitea of the 

 "Coal Measures, are not infrequent in the Devonian rocks of St. John, 

 Perry and Ohio ; but to what species they belong is at present unknown. 

 2 figure i-wo species from St. John and another from Perry. 



(^Oalamodendrece and Calamitece.^ 



. r' Genus Calamodendron. — Bronq. 



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20. Calamodendron antiquius, S. N.,— (PI. Ill, Fig. 39.)— M. D., 

 Lepreau, N. Brunswick. 



Jtibs unequal, about nine on a flattened stem half an inch wide. Articula- 

 tions distinct. Flattened woody envelope about a quarter of an 

 inch wide, on either side of the ribbed axis. * . "^ " 



The above \i a description of a specimen rather than of a species ; but it 

 implies the recognition of a new form in our Devonian rocks. Calamo- 

 dendra are casts of the pith-cavities of plants of very curious structure, and 

 as yet not well understood affinities, though probably allied to Calamites 

 and Sigillariae. The present and the next species were collected by Mr. 

 Weston at Lepreau. .,..-..„. ^ ,»--.-- - a-v,ff.v' 



