118 THE OLDER MESOZOIC FLORA OP VIRGINIA. 



I think there can be little doubt but that this plant is an Otozamites of 

 the type of Otozamites Beanii, Schimper (Cyclopteris Beanii Lindl. and Hut.), 

 from the Oolite of England. This plant may be compared with the nar- 

 rower leaflets of the English fossil, those coming from the upper part. It 

 is, however, a new species if it be an Otozamites. It would require an 

 examination of the original specimen to decide this point. The plant fig- 

 ured by Emmons is evidently fragmentary and the leaves a good deal dis- 

 torted, as he suggests. The left-hand lower leaf, only partially preserved, 

 must originally have been in shape and size near the larger leaflets of Oto- 

 zamites Beanii, and have overlapped in part the leaflet above. Though the 

 character of the plant is not clearly disclosed by the figure, it would appear 

 that it cannot be an Albertia. The nerves, as drawn in the figure of Em- 

 mons, are represented as forking near the margin of the leaflets in a manner 

 similar to that seen in the nervation of the leaflets of Otozamites. It may 

 be called Otozamites Carolinensis 



Nceggerathia striata. 



Plate LIU, Fig. 1. 

 Emmons's " Am. Geol.," \t. 127, fig. 96. 



"The leaves are coarsely striate. It occurs in a light-greenish shale, about 5 

 miles north from Haywood. It is very nearly upon the parallel (horizon ?) with the 

 beds upon Haw River, which furnish so many Oycads and Calamites." 



This is clearly the basal portion of Baiera multifida. 



Emmons gives in fig. 97 a nondescript plant which he calls Comephyl- 

 lum cristatum. As it does not show any characters that throw light upon 

 the nature of the plant I omit it. 



Lepacyclotes ellipticus. 



Plate LII, Fig. 4. 

 Emmons's "Am. Geol.," p. 129, fig. 98. 



"Disk elliptical, scales attached to an elliptical nucleus; disk supported by, or 

 attached to, a stem which passes through the middle in the direction of its long axis. 

 The number of scales in the disk is from 20 to 24. The stem is not always visible." 



This plant is evidently a cone of a conifer near to Araucaria. Indeed 

 the resemblance is so great that it may well be, a true Araucaria. The 

 supposed stem appears to me to be accidentally present. The figure rep- 



