_ the railway station of Ballyhale. I believe the plant-beds on the 
Summit of this to form an ‘outlier,’ and to occupy the same 
i at 
"geological positi 
_ Jerpoint and those of the railway cutting. The fossil plants here 
found have never been described except casually. They consist of 
remains of a large fern, called C'yclopteris hibernica, ty Professor 
Forbes, associated with a large bivalve, named by him Anodon 
jukesii ; of undescribed dermal plates of a Serilacicons fish, pro- 
 hably a species of Cloccosteus ; and of numerous unknown plants 
allied to Lepidodendron, and so named by Professor Forbes 
and M. Bron ngniart, the latter of whom has named a remarkable 
Lepidodendron 2p Others of these fossil plants have been 
named Knorria; and a large undescribed group remains, to which 
| propose to give the name Cyclostigma.” 
3 CYCLOSTIGMACE. 
A oe aie order of fossil plants found in the lowest beds of the 
stem, part of the oldest flora known to have 
. ‘ cert and more distinct. There are many varieties of this 
are closer toget’ ; 
he: ig to the _transverse line of the soe 1 ae 
resent by 
um there is a 
sci of preservation, on the top of the Kiltorkan Hill, near 
