23 _ Description of Alabama Coal Plants. 
have elsewhere noticed the same paaony in specimens of Stig- 
maria from Nova Scotia. 
13. Poacites? 
Fragments of a broad leaf, rounded at the base, without a mid- 
rib, with very numerous, fine, close, apparently simple veins, 
‘Wilivch diverge at first in a curving manner from the base of the 
leaf, and then become ses No stalk visible. 
14. Bechera tenuis (n. sp 
This has so close a anal to the Boctiangh pH Lindl. 
and Hutt. Foss. F'l., t. 173, that I am not quite confident of the 
propriety of considenitig it a distinct species. It is however a. 
much smaller and more delicate plant, and of a more lax and dif- 
fuse habit. I think it safer for the present to treat it as another 
Species, especially since it comes from a locality so very remote. 
Lindley and Hutton’s plant was from Coalbrook Dale. 
15. Asterophyllites? flaccida. 
Fragments, very numerous, but in so unsatisfactory a state as 
hardly to admit of description. It-was probably an aquatic plant, 
of a very tender and flaccid consistence, with small, verticillate, 
linear, bluntish leaves, which appear to ies no distinct midnb, 
but several faint longitudinal strie or veins. In. this last pecu- 
liarity it departs from the character of Asterophyllites, and it may 
not be really allied to any of the plants hitherto comprehended un- _ 
der that vague name, It is possible that the apparent leaves may 
in reality be short branches, and that the ~~ moe" have had 
some affinity to Chara. 
16. Phyllites?. 
In many of the Tuscaloosa specimens. aor occur, very plen- 
tifully, thin layers of vegetable matter, possessing a very remark- 
i able and delicate structure, but 
without any definite outline that 
I can discover, so that I remain 
uncertain whether they are por-. 
tions of leaves or of . 
ff stems. ‘Their surface appears; 
under an ordinary pocket magni- 
: “MLS fier, most delicately and regularly 
we : » erossbarred, with strong longi- 
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