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ASTE. 



Asterophycus simplex. (Lesquereux. Coal Flora, Penn. 



Geol. Report P, page 13, plate 

 B, figs. 7, 8.) Collett's Indiana, 

 1883, page 33, plate 1, fig. 8.— 

 XIII, Allegheny Coal Meas- 

 ures, in clay above Pottsville 

 Conglomerate (X/7),near Bea- 

 ver, Pa. [Note. The figure does 

 not properly represent Lesque- 

 reux's; which see, and also his 

 remarks on p. 13. J 



in^, ism 



Asterophyllites. Brogniart. (Branches of Calamites, 



Calamocladus^ or Calam,ophyllites^ Schimper. Probably nearer 

 to the Lycopods.) Collett's Indiana of 1883, page 41, plate 4, 

 fig. 6, a conical ear or spike of fruit seeds; fig. 9, vertical sec- 

 tion of a piece of the spike, to show how the seeds are con- 

 cealed; fig. 10, cross section of the same. Coal Flora, page 34. 

 Report I, p. 37; well preserved Asterophyllites^ fish, &c., be- 

 tween First and Second mtn. sand, Oil Region, Pa. 



Asterophyllites apertus See Macrostachya aperta, XIII 

 Asterophyllites crassicaulis. Lesq. Geol. Penn. 1858, 



. Vol. 2, page 851, 

 ^'^^- // ^ ^^^- .//• plate 1, fig. 1, \a, 



iL...J/^.. /.' Perhaps the same 

 _ „__ _ . . as Gutbier's An- 



nularia longi- 

 folia; species 



founded on only two small fragments from Schuylkill Co., Pa. 

 Differs from all other species by its thick, deep furrows of stem ; 

 and by its fruit, nutlets compressed, apparently attached above 

 the joints, filling the whole space between the whorls. 



