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those which follow are also undescribed. Having had access only 

 to the first six numbers of M. Bronmiart's work on " Vegetaux Fos- 

 siles," I am unable to determine. The drawings are faithful delin- 

 eations of the plants represented.' Nos. Sand 3, are beautiful spe- 

 cies of arborescent ferns. The nervures on the foliage of No. 2, are 

 very strongly impressed.' The filaments of the leaves on No. 8, are 

 united at the base, and considerably curved. No. 5, is a very sin- 

 gular fossil, and has several equivocal marks in its form and struc- 

 ture. The outlines of the fragment are similar to the hinder part 

 of a fish ; while its flattened body strengthens the illusion. The 

 specimen is about four inches long, three inches wide and one in 

 thickness, composed of ash colored, marly clay. The Surface is 

 covered with depressed spines of the eighth of an inch in diameter — 

 none were over an inch in length when I received it, and those were 

 all broken and shortened from their original extent. In the same bed 

 a fragment was seen eighteen inches in length and much thicker 

 than this one, but it broke into small pieces in removing it. It may 

 be the remnant of a large Equisetum — the surface is biturainized. 

 No. 6, is also a species of Fucoides, as near as I can determine; it 

 is from the upper bed. No. 10, represents the seeds of some raon- 

 ocotyledonous plant, which are thickly scattered in patches, amidst 

 the fossil leaves in the shale. The seeds are a little enlarged in the 

 figure. No. 11, appears to be " Calamites remotus," and was ta- 

 ken from the upper part of the bed. The columns still retain the 

 siliceous cuticle common to canes. The radius of the four columns, 

 of which the specimen consists, 'being taken, the outlines of the 

 whole circumference is given in the drawing. The oblong tubers 

 on the face of the columns are finely preserved. The original whole, 

 must have been a beautiful stem. The lower part of the shale bed 

 is composed of the half bituminized leaves of grasses, arundinaceous 

 plants, &.C. the mass not being sufficiently vegetable to form perfect 

 coal, although directly beneath, it passes into that state — several 

 feet of the shale would afford nearly as good fuel as Bovey, or wood 

 coal. — 10 feet. 



13. Bituminous coal, eighteen inches in thickness, of rather a 

 poor quality, not sufficiently compact — structure slaty, displaying 

 impressions of broad, delicate leaves between the seams, from which 

 we may infer that wood did not enter into the composition of this 

 bed. No. 34, (page 8 of the wood cuts,) is a piece of coal from the 

 heads of Duck creek, but represents the appearance of the foliage, 

 between the layers of coal as seen at this bed. — 1^ feet. 



