PUE-CARB0NIPER008 PLANTS. 



117. Carpolitheb lunatcs, DawBon. — J. 0. 8., XIX, 464 i PI. XYII, 



: Fig. 11. —U. D., Perry, Maine. '^ ' 



" Base rounded regularly, apex broadly truncate and mucronate ; nu- 

 oleus surrounded with a narrow margin." 



118. Carpolithbs compactus, S. N.— (PI. XIX, Fig. 229.) 



Oroups of small, nval hodifs, about one-eighth of an inch in diameter, lying ts 

 mauet at if they had been attached to a thick and short stalk. 



This is evidently a mass of fructification, but of unknown nature. It is 

 from St. John. 



Gbnub Antholithes. — Brong. 



119. Antholithes Devonicus, Dawson. — (PI. XIX, Fig. 285.) — Acad. 

 Geology, p. 666, Fig. 194.— M. D., St. John, New Brunswick. 



" Stipe thick, rugose ; flowers distichous, somewhat distant, each with 

 straight strong spine or bract and several broader scales." 



I figure a very fine and perfect specimen of this species, and have 

 attempted a partial restoration of it in fig. 2:J8, b. c. In this species the 

 floral leaves are so well marked, and the indications of internal filaments 

 representing stamens or pistils are so distinct, that I cannot doubt 

 that it is a spike of fructification of some phaenogamous plant. ^ . 



120. Antholithes plortdus, S. N.— (PI. XIX, Fig. 236.) 



Flowers or buds composed of six to nine sub-equal oblong obtuse bracts or 

 floral leaves ; arranged in an opposite manner on a thick rugose axis. 



This species at first sight recalls the curious Permian Schiltzia anomala 

 of Geinitz ; but it wants the scaly bracts of that species. Like the former 

 this must, I suppose, have been the fructification of some phsanogamous, 

 possibly gymnospermous plant. 



Genus Sporangites. — Dn. 



121. Sporangites acuminata, Dn.— (PI. XIX, Figs 232 to 284.) 



" Spore-cases : oblong acuminate, six to nine in a whorl ; erect, or slightly 

 spreading. Dehiscence lateral." 



I place under this name the objects described in former papers as 

 Amwhria aeumnata. Additional specimeui lead me to believe that 



