WaARD.] THE CONNECTICUT VALLEY AREA. 223 
Journal of Science for 1823, in an extended article read before the 
American Geological Society on September 11, 1822.1 Neither of the 
two objects found is specifically determinable, the first being some sort 
of cane or grass, the other a coniferous branch, possibly Palissya or 
Voltzia. The first was found one-half mile south of Newgate Prison, 
and the second at Sunderland, in Massachusetts. 
The first mention made of the petrified tree found in the Southbury 
area of the Connecticut Trias, about which so much has been: said, was 
a paragraph devoted to it by Dr. Hitchcock in his Miscellaneous Notices 
of Mineral Localities, with Geological Remarks, in 1828,” deseribing 
a fragment from it obtained by Dr. Smith of Southbury, broken 
off by a man who had mistaken it for a recent stump and ruined his 
ax upon it. 
In his first Geological Report of Massachusetts, published in 1833,° 
and accompanied by an atlas of 18 plates, Dr. Hitchcock made passing 
mention on pages 232-234 of vegetable remains in the Trias and fig- 
ured a few obscure objects on pl. xiii of the atlas. He supposed that 
he had found a species of Calamites agreeing closely with C. arenaceus 
of Brongniart, and refers to the mention by De la Beche, in his Man- 
ual of Geology, of the discovery of Lycopodites Sillamanni at ‘*‘ Hadley, 
Connecticut,” which he believes to have meant South Hadley, Massa- 
chusetts. Speaking of the coniferous plant figured in the American 
Journal, already referred to, he concludes that it is probably a Voltzia 
related to V. brevifolia. ‘The fucoid there found he was disposed to 
regard as Fucoides Brongniartii; but, as we shall see later, he after- 
wards gave this plant another name. It was found in Deerfield and 
Greenfield, and was referred to Dr. Morton for determination. Dr: 
Hitchcock also here again calls attention to the fossil trunk of a tree 
discovered at Southbury, Connecticut. 
The Report on the Geological Survey of Connecticut, by Charles 
Upham Shepard,’ 1837, refers to the occurrence of vegetable remains 
in the red sandstone at Middletown and: in the cupriferous sandstone- 
slate at Enfield Falls, in Suffield, and at Southington and Durham. 
In his second Geological Report of Massachusetts’ Hitchcock 
devotes nine pages (pp. 450-458) to the subject of fossil plants in the 
Trias or New Red Sandstone,.as he calls it. Some of these are of 
doubtful vegetable nature; others that he figures are probably fucoids, 
which can scarcely be determined fronrhis description. The one men- 
1A sketch of the geology, mineralogy, and scenery of the regions contiguous to the River Connec- 
‘tieut, with a geological map and drawings of organic’ remains, and occasional botanical notices, 
Part I, by Edward Hitchcock: Am. Jour. Sci., Ist series, Vol. VI, 1823, pp. 1-86. For reference to fossil 
plants see p. 80, pl. ix, figs. 4, 5. 
2Am. Jour. Sci., Ist series, Vol. XIV, 1828, p. 298, 
3 Report on the Geology, Mineralogy, Botany, and Zoology of Massachusetts, by Edward Hitche ock, 
Amherst, 1833. 
4 New Haven, 1837, pp. 1-188, 8°. See pp. 62, 166. 
6 Final Report on the Geology ot Massachusetts, Vol. II, Northampton, 1841. 
