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very abundant. — A. scutigera Daws. The curious stems of this species, with 

 their scale-armed nodes, occur abundantly in this bed. — Sphenophyllum anti- 

 quum Daws. — Pecopteris obscura Lesqx. — Sj^henopteris sp.? — Cardiocarpum cor- 

 nutum Daws. Rare. — Psilophyton elegans Daws. Occasional. I have never 

 detected any trace of Cordaites Eobhii Daws., in this bed. It is extremely common 

 in the overlying strata. 

 Gray sandstones and flags, with occasional ill-preserved plants, Calamites transitionis 

 Goeppt. — Cordaites Rohhii Daws. — Asterophyllites and Sternhergiae . 2 feet 6 in. 

 Black arenaceous shales of the same character as those of Plant-bed No. 1, but 



without fossils, so far as I have examined ....... 11 inches. 



Compact flaggy, gray sandstone, with badly preserved plant remains, Calamites, 



etc "..... 2 feet. 



Very soft, dark, lead-colored shales, much slicken-sided and charged with frag- 

 ments of plants. This bed is so soft that the action of the weather and the 

 sea have everywhere denuded it to the level of the beach .... 4 feet. 



Plant-bed No. 2 1 foot. 



At the point where the section crosses the bed, and where I first discovered it, it con- 

 sists of very compact and hard, light lead-coloured, slate-like, arenaceous shale ; but the 

 character of the shale varies much in its different exposures, being sometimes very soft 

 and fissile, and of a very black colour. The following is the list of species which it 

 affords : — 



Calamites transitionis Goeppt. Occasionally; never in good specimens. — C. cannae- 

 formis Brongn. Occasionally ; never in good specimens. — Asterophyllites acicularis 

 Daws. Rather rare. — A. latifolia Daws. Rather rare. — A. longifolia Brongn. (?). 

 Rather rare. — A. parvula Daws. Whorls of a minute Asterophyllites, which 

 may belong to this species, are not infrequent in this bed. — Sporangites 

 acuminata Daws. — Pinnularia dispalans Daws. Abundant. — Psilophyton elegans 

 Daws. Quite common, always in fragments, never in good specimens. — 

 P. glabrum Daws. Flattened stems, with a wavy woody axis traced in a 

 brighter line of graphite, occur in this bed, but always in fragments. — Cor- 

 daites Bobbii Daws. Extremely abundant, and very fine specimens may be 

 obtained, especially from the upper part of the bed, and rarely specimens showing 

 the base or the apex of the leaf — Cyclopteris obtusa Lesqx. Occurs very abund- 

 antly in detached pinnules. — C. varia Daws. B,eive.—I^europteris polymorpha Daws. 

 Extremely abundant, never in large fronds. — Sphenopteris Hoeninghausii Brongn. 

 Quite abundant, often in fine fronds. — S. marginata Daws. Abundant, in fine fronds. 



^, Harttii Daws. Very rare. — The original specimen came from this bed. — 



Hymenophyllites Gersdorffii Goeppt. Rather rare.— JET. obtusilobus Goeppt. Rare. 

 —II. curtilobus Daws. — Alethopteris discrepans Daws. Amongst all the abundance 

 of plants afforded by Plant-bed No. 2, I have detected only one or two pinnules of 

 this fern, which appears first in abundance in Plant-bed No. 3. It is afterwards one of 

 the most common s^Qcies.— Pecopteris ingens Daws. Very rare, only two or three 

 fragments of pinnules having been {owndi.—Trichomanites (?) Only a single speci- 

 men, probably, as Dawson has suggested, only the skeleton of a fern.— Car- 



