KILMARNOCK, GALSTON, AND KILWINNING COAL FIELDS, AYRSHIRE. 349 



Remarks. — This plant, though rare in Britain, is met with in the Upper, Middle, and 

 Lower Coal Measures. 



On one of the specimens from Crosshouse is a small fragment of a Sigillarian cone. 

 It is very fragmentary, but the bracts at the base of the fossil (though not at the true 

 base of the cone) show the macrospores very clearly, but the upper bracts only show a 

 very fine, slightly roughened surface. The specimen is so preserved that it only exhibits 

 the upper surface of some of the basal portions of the bracts, which appear as if they had 

 been torn from the axis, which must have adhered to the counterpart of the rock, which 

 has unfortunately not been secured. 



Locality. — No. 3 Pit, Springhill, Crosshouse. 

 Horizon. — Shale over Major Coal. 



Lycopod Macrospores. 



Remarks. — Few of the shales and underclays have been examined for Macrospores. 



Some collections have been made by Mr James Bennie from Burnanne and Woodhill 



Quarry. Mr Beveridge has also examined shales from Woodhill and the Main Coal of 



Annandale Colliery.* 



Locality 38 1. — Burnanne, 1 mile south-east of Galston, from a plant bed above 



4 -inch coal in the bed of the stream, about 100 yards above Burn House. 



Horizon. — About the position of the Tourha' Coal. 



Contents — 



Triletes II. 

 „ VII. 

 ,, XII. 



The gathering also contained sac-like bodies, which are probably sporangia, fragments 

 of stems, and scorpion remains. 



Locality 39. — Burnanne, 1 mile south of Galston, from outcrop of "Major Coal," 

 about 100 yards above Lodge at Burn House. 



Horizon. — Splint portion of Major Coal. 

 Contents — 



Triletes XIV. 



The spores in this gathering were not numerous, and imperfect from the matrix 

 adhering to them. 



* See Proc. Roij. Phijs. Soc, vol. ix. pp. 82-117, pis. iii.-vi., and Trans. Roij. Soc. Edin., vol. xxxv. pp. 

 86-94. 



t These numbers refer to the list of localities from which these small fossils have been obtained, irrespective of 

 district. 



