Neur. 



464 



NauvptcrLy jraiwr : 



Neuropteris minor (desorii ?). Lesq. Geol. Pa. 1858, page 



859, plate 3, fi^, 4, with 



a terminal leaflet very 

 small and oval. Speci- 

 men found by Desor, in 

 an anthracite bed at 

 Tamaqua, Schuylkill 

 Co., Pa. Note . Per- 

 haps a decayed leaf of 

 N, desorii. 

 Neuropteris plicata. Sternb. (Lesq. Geol. Pa. 1858, page 



4 j'.woptm^y />/£ra^;j 857, plato 20, fig. 4, the 

 ^ only specimen of this 

 European plant found, 

 in the Salem vein, at 

 Pottsville. Difficult to 

 separate the figured 

 species plicata and 

 Hexuosa, See discussion 

 of it in Coal Flora, 

 1880, pages 96, 97, where plicata is shown by plate 10, figs. 1 

 to 4. Lesquereux cannot recognize the European Uexuosa in 

 any American specimen. His figured plicata abound in {XV) 

 Munongahela coal measures, at Pomeroy, O., and also in the 

 Pittsburgh coal bed, but I. 0. White has many specimens from 

 a coal bed in (XVII) Upper Barrens, 400' above the Waynes- 

 burg coal. In the Darlington coal, Q, 54. — XIII. 



Neuropteris polymorpha. Dawson, Acad. Geol. 1868, p- 



/"A 2^, 



vni-ix 



Paw.. 



mid-rib, etc.— VIII-IX 



^ 548, fig. 192, C, terminal pin- 

 nule; very abundant in the 

 Upper Devonian shales., near 

 Carlton, St. John, N. B. Ap- 

 parently several species, but 

 found in one and the same 

 frond. Like N. heterophylla. 

 Bgt. or N. hirsuta., Lesq., but 

 192 has a smooth surface, delicate 



