316 J. W. Dawson on the Flora of the Devonian 
intimately connected to be separated from each other. It is evi- 
dently a stratified member of the series, though its beds are very 
unequal in hardness and texture, and probably also in thickness. 
This portion of the series is well exposed on the east side of 
Courtney Bay, in the southern part of the city of St. John, and 
in the direction of Carlton, where its tufaceous or trappean 
members constitute prominent elevations. It seems also to be 
this member of the series which, turning to the south, constitutes 
Cape Meogenes. 
Reposing on the rocks last described, is the most interesting 
member of the series, consisting of hard buff and gray sandstones, 
with black and dark-gray shales. The sandstones contain nur 
merous Coniferous trunks; and the shales, which are sometimes 
highly graphitic, abound in delicate vegetable remains, often 12 
a very perfect state of preservation. These rocks appear on the 
east side of Courtney Bay, near Little River, at the extremity of 
the point of land on which the city of St. John stands, and 18 
the ledges and cliffs on the shore westward of Carlton. In_ 
these places they are quite conformable with the underlying 
rocks, though the dip gradually diminishes in ascending. — 
o rocks newer than the above are seen at Carlton or in the 
city of St. John; but near Little River a few beds of r shale 
and coarse sandstone seem to indicate the commencement of as 
new member of the series, the coast-section failing at this point, 
Mr. Matthew has, however, succeeded in finding a continuation 
of the section further inland, exhibiting first, in ascending order, 
gray sandstone and grit, with dark shale holding fossil plants 
among which is Calamites Transitionis. This may per hand 
regarded as the top of the group last mentioned. oat ad = 
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est beds seen, as beyond this place they are bent ina syneli a a : 
Another most important observation of Mr. Matthew is = i 
near Red Head the member of the St. John series aig" a 
lage It dips to the northwest, 
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up as follows, the thicknesses stated being from measuret et : : 
