PRS-OARBOKIFBROUS PLANTS. 



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42. Ltcopoditbs Matthbwi, Dn.— (PI. VIII, Figs. 86 to 87.)— CanacU 

 Nat. VI. — M.D., St John, New Brunswick. 



*< Leaflets one-reined, narrowly oral, acuminate, one-tenth to one-fourth 

 of an inch in length, somewhat loosely placed on a slender forking 

 stem. " 



Additional specimens show this to have been a mr woody plant than 

 I had at first supposed, and possibly branchlets of s .e slender Lepido- 

 dendron of the type of L. aouminata of Goeppert. (Fig. 87.) 



48. Lyeopodita Vmuxemii, Dn.— J. 0. S., XVIII, 814, PI. XVII. 

 Also Hall's and Vanuxem's Reports on Geology of New York. — 

 U.D., Ithica, New York. 



** Stem slender with marks of fallen leaves. Leaves pinnate, contiguous, 

 linear, about half an inch in length." 



I have seen additional specimens in the collections of Prof. Hall, which 

 show carbonaceous and apparently woody stems, having traces of fibrous 

 structure and transverse markings externally. The leaves have evidently 

 been in one plane and show obscure longitudinal striation but no trace of a 

 midrib. I have no doubt that this is a land plant, but whether most nearly 

 allied to Lycopodiaceae or Ferns, I still entertain doubts. * It suggests 

 to botanical observers comparisons with leaves of Cycads and even with 

 Algse ; but the woody character of its stem and the nerveless condition 

 of its leaves are against these suppositions. It is, as explained in previous 

 papers, a near ally of Goeppert's species, L. pennceformis. 



"44. Lycopodites comotua. Dn.— J. G. S., XIX, 462. — U. D., Perry 

 Maine. 



" Stem short, not observed to branch, densely covered with long filiform 

 leaves." 



45. LepidostrohuB globotm, Dn. — J. G. S., XVIII, 314. — U.D., Perry, 

 Maine. 



** Round, or rounded oval, covered with obscure pointed scales. " 

 I have no further information as to the last two species. 



• In some bed? jf the same aeries there are cylindrical branches covered with minute tuber 

 cleg and bearing pinnate branchleta of similar character ; I agree with Prof. Hall that these 

 are of aoimal origin. 



