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not larger than in Hutton's reduced figure. The leaves spring 

 from the stem by a broadish base, and gradually increase in 

 width to the distal margin ; they are covered with fine veins, 

 which bifurcate or separate occasionally with the increased 

 width of the leaves. The stem is finely striated. Hutton 

 label, " Ncegerrathia flabellata, Jarrow, B." 

 Loc. — Shale above the Bensham Seam, Jarrow. (H.C. 558). 



242. This is a small cuneiform or triangular leaf, with fine 



radiating veins, which occasionally bifurcate or separate, ac- 

 cording to the width of the leaf. The Hutton label on this 

 specimen is " Ncegerrathia flabellata, Jarrow, B., D." 

 Loc. — Shale above the Bensham Seam, Jarrow. {H.C. 560). 



Remarks. — The specimen No. 241 is somewhat similar in ap- 

 pearance to the figure F. P., Plate 29, being the terminal part 

 of a small stem, covered with a number of wedge-shaped or 

 cuneate leaves, which seem to be arranged spirally but not 

 closely round the stem. The veining of the leaves does not bi- 

 furcate strongly, but splits or separates off gradually to increase 

 the width of the upper and broadest part of the leaf. JSCo. 242 

 is a much smaller cuneate leaf of the same species. 



Up to the present time this species appears to have been found 

 only in the shale above the Bensham Seam of Coal, in the Col- 

 lieries of Jarrow and Hebburn-on-Tyne, where it seems to have 

 occurred frequently. The specimen referred to this species in 

 the Duff Collection, from the Lower Coal-seams of the Auckland 

 district, South Durham, is only a large Cyclopteris leaf. 



COEDAITES. 



Cordaites regularis (Sternberg sp .). 



yy^—C alamites regularis, Sternb., Yers. I., pi. 59. 



243. ■ There is a label on this specimen in Hutton's hand- 

 writing, " Low Moor, Yorkshire. Is not this Sternberg's 

 Calamities regularis, table 59, p. 1 ? To be returned." Un- 

 doubtedly this specimen was sent to Lindley with the request 

 to return it, a request found attached to several other speci- 

 mens. This is a cast of four scars, and the deeply striated 

 longitudinal markings seen on Sternberg's figure, above re- 



