112 Scientific Intelligence. 
4th, Veu uropteris ee Pinnularia, Asterophyliiies, Sphenophyllum 
and Annularia, Neuropieris fimbriata, &c., Pecopteris arborescens, 
Flabellaria boracifolia, & Sie dp ; some Calamites, Sigillaria, Stigmaria, 
but no Lepidodendron or Lepidostrobus seen. 
t » fleauosa, 
8th. Pecopteris heterophylla. Most of the species not well defined. 
9th. Avicula rectilateraria, Productus muricatus, Fish remains. Cal- 
amites, Sigillarie. 
11th. Pleurotomaria of various species, Productus Rogersit ? Nucula 
Hameri? Avicula near A. rectilateraria, Sigiliaria seems to be wanting. 
Fish remains like those of No. 
12th. Stigmaria, Ca ener : i searce Sigillari 
2. The Fossil Plants of the Coal Measures of the Cited States, with 
— of the New Soli in ee cece of the Pottsville Scientific 
Association ; by Leo LesquerE 4 pp., 8vo, with two plates. Read 
before the Pottsville Sci. Ass aocaeuk “rae 13, 1858. Pottsville, Pa.— 
In this paper Mr. uereux has enumerated all the known species 
North American coal plants, besides describing some ” that are new. In 
all, about 300 species are mentioned; but Mr. Lesquereux remarks that 
new species have been collected and are not included in his 
Pomeroy coal of Ohio, together with the beds above them Agel ah Sage 
page) as the No ai Coal Measures, and the beds below, the 
Pomeroy is shows by the cutie of many of the fossil a while 
several of the species occur nowhere else. The following is a brief ab- 
stract Se the Catalogue. 
terideew—Fronds pinnate or bipinnate. Second, veins 
either stents from a medial nerve vanishing above, or = and 
branching from the base of the leaflets without a medial n 
“ Nogeeerartuta, 6 species, all from be “Old Red Sandstone.” 
2. Onontorrerts, 7 — rams, from coal. 
4, Cyrctopteris, C. fate, rane, ittleseya elegans, New 
5. Mos om Tope coal. “The genus can scarcel 
separated from the Sree most of its species being onl: leciduous 
leaflets attached around the m f Ne eris.” 
6. Nzuroprenis, 27 species, mostly from the middle and upper coal. 
SBS ——. bi-tripinnatifid or bi-tripinnate; pinnules — 
‘mostly lobed, sometimes entire; nerves Psmegree foeprern a with a primary — 
“herve sight distinct, flexuous ; secondary n obliquely ascending; 
each division, either simple or forking near a § pots 
a. ~enleneedi 27 species. The includes two , one baving round 
r ¥ entire leaflets belonging to the pore or me other os ae. 
“Hymen 8 Six would be added to Schizopteris by some 
y or ac ai the upper coal; the others salar 2 
ais they he wie 
