922 General Notes. [September, l 
A few species from the Rhode Island coal series were enumer. i 
ated and figured by Dr. C. T. Jackson in his Report on the Geol 
ogy of Rhode Island, published in 1840. A few others have 
pom of Pennsy 
The following. list cote, eighty-eight species, of which l 
fifty-six are ferns : 
FILICACE, 
e ori t apex, open or reflexed 
The whole em recarheg d originally soft, is deformed by compression. 
m is oth, like all the parts of the plant, 2™™ broad; that of 
the lateral pin af a a ; that of the pinnules a little more than ond 
in diameter ; ee gs 3mm long, aaa RE a little more, ar 
T curv all simple and e 
Thi sae close oo resem er Sphenaperi laxa St., Fl. d. Vorw. 1, Ph > 
g. Pp I, p. 58; elegans Bogt, "differing essentially in 
the laciniz apinn ‘simple aot itas nor ma: paf at the apex. 
Wisner fend. murrayana Lesq.— empra cristata St, 
T part inna. K enopteris elegans Brgt. 
Sphenopteris irk i Brgt. Sphenopteris j Aam ingħausii Bret. 
Sphenopteris cherophylloides Brgt. Hon opteris ris tides Brgt. 
uropteris cordata ji 
i egan hirsuta Lesq.—With a Cyclo hws round or re wf ot large leaflet, 
small round basilar ones; all detached from the rachis ak representing 
on werk agassizii Lesq, Neuropteris pesisers Brgt. 
Neuropteris A kae ? Bret. Cyclopteris spe 
eiropa ed ee sigan seg alae Hoffm.—aAs fg 
Neuropteris Goepp. ured vehl. 
Mamroptepis y vase Brgt. 
sisson sips sp: noy. ? or variety of Athena bt: Brgt.—Main nt 
what large, 3-4™™ in diameter; ultimate pinn 
ite, separated to the base, connate at the base only, oblong- ; middle 
vee or blunt abei, sea dualiy astasing from the base upw the apex 
nerve inflated in the lower part, effaced above the middle or under Cae 
ot veins oblique, somewhat curved back, forking once 
very long, the en preserved is nearly 12™™ long, bro 
below the apex so that no ultimate pinnule is observable ; they. e ca 
my 
which the species resembles in the form of the pinnules. As t 
nule, which in the European species is very long and wrt oe 
oe the identification is not possible. The differen 
er pinne, the more pointed pinnules ‘and mre pet texture. 
Poi eris alpina Gein.—Large leaflets. Peco wert cyathea Bgt. 
rey alata Les Pecopteris pa Brgt. 
ontopteris brardii Br gt. Peco pteris oreopteridis Schlt. 
Ferat deformata Lesq. copteris candolliana Brgt. 
Pe Sic neuropleroides Newby. Peci pteris dentata Bret 
ontopteris patens Lesq. Pecopteris arborescens Brgt. 
P: reports s polymorpha Brgt. Pecopteris aspidivides Brgt. 
ecopteris acuta Brgt. Pecopteris clarkii Lesq. 
Pecopteris aiias Brgt. Pecopteris erosa a Gutb. 
a long, close, narro, | 
nearly at right angles; thet a kanlas pA gie inclined upwari : Woke 8 
