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ration of the wood into wedges is an evidence of their having 
existed, that the difference in minute structure between Sigillaria 
and Stigmaria involves no serious difficulty if the former be regarded 
as allied to Cycadeacee, and, further, that we do not know how many 
of the Stigmarie belong to Stgillaria proper, or to Favularia, or to 
such forms as Clathraria and Leioderma, which may have been 
more nearly allied to Lepidophloios, that the fruit figured by 
Goldenberg as that of Sigillaria is more probably that of Lepido- 
phlowos, or may be a male catkin with pollen, and that he has found 
Trigonocarpa scattered around the trunks of Sigillariw and on the 
surface of the soil in which they grew. He agreed with Mr. Car- 
ruthers in regarding Mr. Binney’s Sigillaria vascularis as allied to 
Lepidodendron. 
Discussion. 
Prof. Morris thought that Clathraria and Lepidophloios ought to 
be discriminated from the Stgillariw, as being rather more nearly 
allied to cycadeaceous plants, especially the former. He pointed out 
the manner in which certain vascular bundles communicating be- 
tween the centre of the stem and the bark in Stgillaria and allied 
genera might be mistaken for medullary rays. 
3. Note on some new AntMAL Remarns from the CARBONIFEROUS and 
Devonian of Canapa. By Principal Dawson, F.R.S., F.G.S., 
Montreal. 
(The publication of this paper is deferred.) 
[ Abstract. ] 
Tue author described the characters presented by the lower jaw of 
an Amphibian, of which a cast had occurred in the coarse sandstone 
of the Coal-formation between Ragged Reef and the Joggins Coal- 
mine. It measured 6 inches in length ; its surface was marked on 
the lower and posterior part with a network of ridges enclosing 
rounded depressions. The anterior part of the jaw had contained 
about 16 teeth, some of which remained in the matrix. These were 
stout, conical, and blunt, with large pulp-cavities, and about 32 
longitudinal striz corresponding to the same number of folds of 
dentine. The author stated that this jaw resembled most closely 
those of Baphetes and Dendrerpeton, but more especially the former. 
He regarded it as distinct from Baphetes planiceps, and proposed 
for it the name of B. minor. If distinct, this raises the number of 
species of Amphibia from the Coal-measures of Nova Scotia to nine. 
The author also noticed some insect-remains found by him in slabs 
containing Sphenophyllum. They were referred by Mr. Scudder to 
the Blattarie. 
From the Devonian beds of Gaspé the author stated that he had 
obtained a small species of Cephalaspis, the first yet detected in 
America. With it were spines of Machairacanthus and remains of 
some other fishes. At Gaspé he had also obtained a new species of 
Psilophyton, several trunks of Prototaaites, and a species of Cyclo- 
stigma. 
