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il/r- Arber, A note on some fossil 



A note on some fossil plants from Newfoundland. By E. A. 

 Newell Arber, MA., F.L.S., F.G.S., Trinity College. 



[Read 7 February 1910.] 



The present preliminary note is concerned with two fossil 

 plants, not hitherto recorded from Newfoundland. Our know- 

 ledge of the plant-remains from this region is at present very 

 slight, and is confined to a few Upper Carboniferous species de- 

 scribed by Dawson*. The impressions, discussed here, occur in 

 a sandy shale exposed in the bed of the Shenanditti River, on 

 the west side of Red Indian Lake in the interior of Newfoundland. 



Text-fig. 1. Sphenophyllum tenerrimum, Stur. 



Two leaf whorls, each composed of six or more repeatedly dichotomous, narrow 

 segments. No. 269 Sedgwick Museum, Camb. x 2. 



The specimens, which are well preserved, were presented to the 

 Sedgwick Museum by the generosity of Mr Rowland Feilding in 

 1908. 



There are only two species to be recorded and these were 

 associated. One of them is a Sphenophyllum, which appears to 



* Dawson, Rep. Foss. Plants, Loiver Carbon, and Millstone Grit, Canada (Geol. 

 Surv. Canada, 1873), pp. 29, 32, 34. 



