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A small collection of specimens was made at this locality among 
which Dr. David White has identified the following species : 
Equisetites calamitinoides, Glossopteris indica, 
Schisoneura? sp., Glossopteris ampla, 
Sigillaria australis, Glossopteris occrdentalis, 
Sigillaria spores and leaf Noeggerathiopsis, Hislopi, 
Sphenopteris histata, Cardiocarpon Oliveiranum, 
Carpolithus? sp. 
TIrapua coal 
On the steep bluffs of Rio Irapua near the fazenda of Dr. Ramiro 
Barcellos in Rio Grande do Sul, a small slaty coal, 40 to 50 centi- 
meters in thickness, has been opened about 8 meters below what is 
supposed to represent the lower division of the S. Jeronymo coal or 
Barro Branco horizon of the Minas region. 
The coal does not appear to be of economic importance at any 
locality within the entire coal field, since it does not attain to com- 
mercial size. The thin streaks of coal encountered in the borings 
I, IJ and III near Poco Fé, of the S. Jeronymo Company at a depth 
of 15 to 20 meters below the top of the S. Jeronymo coal bed, probably 
represent this horizon, while in the deep boring at Xarqueada, it 
would be represented by the coal struck at 284 meters, and 60 cen- 
timeters in thickness 15.60 meters below the base of the S. Jero- 
nymo coal. 
Irapua fossil plant shale 
In the roof of the Irapua coal, at the type locality as above des- 
cribed in Rio Grande do Sul, there occur numerous remains of fossil 
plants, in a sandy shale, or shaly sandstone. 
They are principally of the same species occurring in the Rio Bonito 
Beds of Santa Catharina, although the variety is not so large. The 
following species have been identified by Dr. David White from the 
Irapua. locality : 
Glossopteris indica, Noeggerathiopsis Histopi, 
Glossopteris Browniana, Ottokaria ovalis, 
Glossopteris sp?, Cardiocarpon Barcellosum, 
