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PEOCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOeiCAL SOCIETY. [DcC. 1, 



doubtful, it has at my request been named (after its discoverer) 

 Caulopteris ? Peachii. See fig. 14. The stem is wider beneath each 

 branch, and striated for a short distance. 



Fig. 14. — Fossil Plants and Crustacean from the Old Red Sandstone. 



a. Stem of Tree-fern ( Caulopteris ? Peachii, Salter) ; Jrd nat. size. Thurso. 



b. Young shoot of a Coniferous ? plant, showing leaves; half nat. size. Dun- 

 cansby Head. 



c. d. Estheria Murchisoniana, Jones ; nat. size and magnified. Murkle Bay, 

 Caithness (collected by Mr. R. Dick). 



The flora, then, so far as can be made out, consisted of Coniferous 



