FROM THE HUTTON COLLECTION. 135 



FOSSIL WOOD {Coniferous). 



Araucarioxylon ? 



261.— Pinites ? 



There is a label on this specimen in Hutton's hand-writing, 

 " B. Scaffold Hill, Quarry." Some very large pieces of this 

 tree were obtained from this same Quarry in 1879, by Mr. 

 Taylor, and presented to the Museum. It appears to be the 

 same species as the Wideopen tree. No sections have yet been 

 published of this fossil wood. 



Loc. — In Sandstone Quarry, Scaffold Hill, near Backworth 

 and Benton Square, Northumberland. (H. C. 550). 



262.— Pinites ? 



This is identical with the next and has been cut for making 

 sections. 



Loc. — Sandstone above the High-Main Seam, "Westgate Hill, 

 near Newcastle-upon-Tyne. (H. C. 5-41). 



263. " Westgate, 1833," written in pencil by W. Hutton on 



a cut surface of the specimen. Very dark with much coal on 

 it. It appears to be a fragment of a very large stem similar 

 to some large heavy masses in the Museum. 

 Loc. — Sandstone above the High-Main Seam, Westgate Hill, 

 near Newcastle-upon-Tyne. (H. C. 545). 



Bemarh. — It is quite impossible without sections to refer the 

 above specimens to any particular species of fossil plants. They 

 were selected from about eighteen specimens in the Hutton 

 Collection, and all seemed to be from the two localities above 

 mentioned. No. 261 is part of a large stem from Scaffold Hill 

 Sandstone Quarry. The remains of this tree were lying obliquely 

 through the sandstone in 1879, when a great portion of it was 

 removed by the quarrymen, but a part of it is still embedded 

 in the adjacent unworked part of the quarry I am not aware 

 that any section has been published of this tree. Nos. 262, 263, 

 were from a sandstone quarry on "Westgate Hill in the High- 

 Main Post (sandstone), and is of a black colour and coated with 

 carbonaceous matter. Sections have been cut from both these 

 specimens. Large pieces of this tree are preserved in the New- 

 castle Museum. Remains of silicified tree- stems have been 



