Plant. 662 



series, rude fragments of plants and Chunks of Coal lie in the 

 massive sandstone stratum over the Pittshiirgh Coal hed near 

 Gray's landing on the Monongahela, K, 137. — Plant impres 

 sions, mostly well preserved, are numerous in the dark shale 

 bed No. 6 of the Peters' Creek section, near Morrison's, 140' 

 beneath the Redstone coal bed. Union, Washington Co, K, 

 221. — Plant fragments are abundant in the floor ; and plants, 

 lamellibranch shells, and iish remains are mingled in the roof 

 of the Redstone Coal at Cannonsburg, K, 236. — XV. 



Plants of the Washington group ( Upper Barren Measures) 

 figured in PP : — 400 feet above the Waynesburg bed, Neurop- 

 teris dictyopteroides F. & W. N. auriculata Bgt. N. Hexuosa. 

 Odontopteris rarinervis ; Callipteridium oblong if olium^ Pecop 

 teris integripinna (400' to 600') P, ovoides F. & W. P, lance- 

 olata F. & W. P, latifolia F. & W.— 500' above Waynesburg 

 Coal Odontopteris pachyderma F. & W. abundant ; Alethop- 

 teris gigas Gein. — 800' above Waynesburg coal, Goniopteris 

 emarginata Goepp. — At all heights from Waynesburg coal 

 nearly to top of the series Pecopteris pluckeneti Bgt. — In addi- 

 tion to the above, Tceniopteris newberriana F. & W. near 

 Macrotoeniopteris rogersi Schimp. of the Richmond Triassic 

 coal. T. newberriana var. angusta^ ditto. Caulopteris gigan 

 tea F. & W. some specimens one and a half feet broad. Baiera 

 virginiana F. & W. 



Plants, carbonized, in fragments, crowd the shaly laminated 

 sandstone, under the Washington CoaC at Waynesburg, K, 

 54, 150; on Ten Mile Creek, K, 190 ; in Canton township, K, 

 245. 



Plants in the roof shales of the Washington Coal (Upper 

 Barren measures) figured and described by Fontaine & White, 

 Report PP, 1880. Annularia minuta Bgt. Sphenopteris cor 

 iacea F. & W. Callipteris conferta Sternb. Pecopteris arbor- 

 escens Schlot. very abundant. 



Plants, macerated to a mere skeleton, occasionally appear 

 in the black fish-bed shale over the Washington Coal, K, 50 ; 

 and with bivalve crustaceans in Limestone No. 2 at Ten Mile 

 village, Morris, Washington county, K, 188. 



Plant leaves, macerated, occasionally appear with the mai.y 

 fish and crustacean bivalves, and univalve shells, in the black 



