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bed. To fche interval between the latter and the Cedar drove I would 

 refer the coals mined at Ansted and Cotton bill. They are perhaps 

 most closely related paleontologically to the Cedar Grove coal. 



FLORAS OF THE LOWER CROUP OF COALS 



Localities. — The roof shales of the principal coals in the lower group 

 along the Kanawha river usually contain abundant carbonized plant 

 remains which are beautifully impressed. As representative of the floras 

 of the principal horizons of the lower group of coals, collections will be 

 cited from the following localities* along the Kanawha river: 



1. Six feet below the Eagle coal at Crescent (Cresc. E.), and from the roof of the 



Eagle coal at the Eagle mine (Eag. E.), and at Saint Clair (St. C. E.). 



2. Five feet below the Gas coal at Forest Hill (F. H. G.) mine near Edgewater ; 



also from the roof of the same coal at the Diamond mine (Diam. G.) one 

 mile below mount Carbon, at Crescent (Cr. G.), and two mines near the 

 mouth of Morris creek (M. C. G.). 



3. Tunnel coal in slope at Cedar grove (C. G. T.), and at the mouth of Kelleys 



creek (K. C. T.). 



4. Roof shales of the Peerless coal at Peerless (P. P.) ; from a drift onedialf mile 



below Cedar grove (C. G. P.); Little fork of Slaughter creek (SI. P.); the 

 Black Diamond mine near Lewiston (B. D. P. ) ; shaft at the Monarch mine 

 (Mon. P.) near Peabody ; as probably coming not far from the same horizon 

 we may also include the fossils from the roof shales at Handley (Hand.), 

 and the roadside near the incline at the Black Cat mine (B. C). 



5. Roof of the Cedar Grove coal at Cedar Grove (C. G. C.) ; Kelleys creek, below 



the mouth of Hurricane branch (H. C. G.); the Big Mountain mine near 

 the mouth of Kelleys creek (K. C. G.); East Bank (E. C. G.) ; Black Cat 

 (Bl. C. G.), and from the roof of a coal supposed to be the Cedar Grove seam 

 at the Riverside mine opposite Crown Hill (R. C. G.). 

 (i. The coal mined at Ansted (Anst.) and Cotton Hill (C. H.) also belongs to the 

 lower group. 



The greater portion of the ferns accompanying the lower group of the 

 Kanawha coals consists either of species not yet described from our 

 American Coal Measures or of phases and varieties clearly- different from 

 the familiar or t # ypical forms. A part of the flora is composed of the 

 survivors of the floras in the upper portion of the Pottsville ; that is, 

 Sewell and Fayette formations.t As neither the latter nor the floras of 

 the Kanawha formation are yet completely elaborated s} T stematically, 

 the identifications recorded below must be considered as tentative or 

 often comparative and subject to revision in the full S}'stematic report 

 on the floras of the two formations which is now in preparation. 



*In this paper only fche localities typical of the coal-hearing horizons will he reviewed. 

 f Campbell ami Mendenhall, op. cit., pp. 494, 497. 



