forms. Carrutliers had in Oct. 1865, described a cone contain- 

 ing rounded spore-cases of not dissimilar type, under the name 

 Fhningites. In the paper above referred to, I stated that out 

 "t oiu-htv-one coals of the South Joggins Section examined by 

 I rooognized these bodies and other fruits or Sporangia, in 

 -'xteen; and of these only four had the rounded Lyco- 

 'ous spore-cases similar to those of Flemingites. These 

 . ■ ' following : — 



Coal group 12, of Division IV, has a bed of coal one foot 

 )f which some layers are almost wholly composed of 

 ■jittfi papillata. 



Coal group 13, Div. IV, has in some layers great quantities 

 \ •rangites glabra, especially in the shalv part of the coal. 

 (3.) In Coal group 14, Div. IV, a shaly parting contains Ln-cat 

 numbere of similar Sporangites. 



(4.) In Coal group 15a, Div. IV, the shaly roof al).>uua< in 

 sporangites, but I did not observe them in the coal itsrll'. 



In addition to these cases, all of which curious! v fin >ul:1i ■ n-cur 

 in one part of the section, and among the smnll.r coiil,-. 1 have 

 noted the occurrence of clear amber spots in several of thr <-oni- 

 pact coals, but I did not regard these as certainly oi-anic. >u^| meet- 

 ing them to be rather concretionary or segivoativo structui-os. 



The great coal beds of Pictou are, in so far as my obser\ation 

 has extended, remarkably free from indications of spore-cases, 

 and consist principally of cortical and ligneous tissues with 

 layers of finely comminuted vegetable matttr. A lawr of 

 cannel, however, from a bed near 



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tened amber-colored dis'cs, which 

 mav be of this character. In those 

 of Cap ~ 



ca^e-hl _^_„ _^ __^ 

 abundant; but the7e ^alTl have 

 Jess extensively examined than 

 those of the mainland of Nova 

 Scotia. Of American coals, the 

 J^chest m spore-cases, that I have 

 ^^V\^^ ^ specimen from Ohio, 

 nich contains many large spore- 

 ^. and vast numbers of more , 

 ^inute globular bodies apparently ' 

 macrospores. It quite equals in this respect some of the English 

 -oats referred to by Huxley, (fig. 4). I have also a specimen of 

 jnthracite from Pennsylvania, fuU of spore-cases, some of them 

 ^taming their round form and filled with granular matter which 

 y represent the spores. 



it 13 not improbable that sporangites or bodies resembling 

 "lem, may be found in most coals: but the facts above stated 



