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Coarse sandstone, full of obscure casts of Sternbergiae and Calamites . 6 feet 6 inches. 

 Soft shale and fissile sandstone, with Calamites ....'. 31 



Sandstones ............ 2 feet 3 



Shale with obscure remains of plants 2A 



Sandstones, barren, so far as examined ...... 4 feet 10 



Sandstone and shale, with a few Calamites and Cordaites ... 9 



Sandstone and coarse shale, with obscure markings .... 5 feet 10 



Light greenish, coarse shale, with fern-stems, Cordaites, and obscure 



markings, Carpolites (1) ........ . 7 



Sandstones and coarse shales, with badly preserved vegetable remains 18 feet 9 



Plant-bed No. 4 1 foot 



Coarse shales, affording at the point where the line of section crosses it : — 



Cordaites Bobhii Daws. — Calamites transitionis Goeppt. — Neuropteris polymorpha 



Daws. — Psilophyton glahrum Daws. — Pinnularia dispalans Daws. 

 I have examined at two different points, in the eastern part of this locality, a bed 

 which appears to correspond to this. It is characterized there by a very beautiful JVeu- 

 ropteris ^ (iV. Dawsoni Hartt) with long linear lanceolate pinnules decurrent on the rachis, 

 to which they form a broad wing. The pinnules are often four inches in length. This 

 iS' one of the most beautiful ferns occurring at the locality. Several other new forms are 

 associated with it. Among these is a magnificent Cardiocarpum, nearly two inches in 

 diameter [C. Baileyi Daws.). 

 Sandstone with obscure markings . . . . . . .9 feet 6 inches. 



Plant-bed No. 5 6 inches. 



Soft, fine-grained light-greenish shale. 



Cordaites Bohbii Daws. Extremely abundant. — Calamites cannaeformis Brongn. 

 Found occasionally. — Psilophyton (?) glabrum Daws. — (?) Asterophyllites acicularis 

 Daws. — Alethopteris discrepans Daws. Quite abundant. — Sphenopteris marginata 

 Daws. Quite abundant. — Pecopteris, sp. nov. (?) — Hymenophyllites sp. (?) — Neurop- 

 teris polymorpha Daws. Very abundant — Spirorbis occurs in the bed, attached to 

 the leaves of Cordaites. I have never detected it in any of the beds higher up. 

 Compact flaggy sandstones and coarse shales, with a few plants. ... 8 feet. 



Plant-bed No. 6. 2 feet. 



Fine-grained and light-coloured shale, with great abundance of Cordaites Bobbii, and 

 Calamites transitionis ; above that a layer of coarse shale, with Cordaites and stems of 

 plants badly preserved ; then a layer of soft, very friable shale, with few fossils ; and lastly, 

 a layer of coarse shale of a greenish-gray colour, with : — 



Alethopteris discrepans Daws. Abundant. — Cordaites Bobbii Daws. Abundant. — 



Calamites cannaeformis Brongn. — Neuropteris polymorpha Daws. — Cardiocarpum 



cornutum Daws. — Cardiocarpum obliquum Daws. — Pecopteris, sp. nov. Occurs 



abundantly in some of the overlying beds. 



Sandstones and coarse shales, with abundance of plant remains, principally Cordaites 



and Calamites ..-......••■. 5 feet. 



1 This plant belongs to a new genus, subsequently named Megalopteris. Report on devonian plants of Canada, 187.1. 



