DEVONIAN AND OLD RED PERIOD. 



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GENERALIZED SECTION OF THE DEVONIAN ROCKS OF 

 NORTH AMERICA. 



Fig. 76. 



Catskill Group. 



Chemung Group. 

 Portage Group. 



Hamilton Group. 



Corniferous Limestone. 



Schoharie Grit. 

 Cauda-Galli Grit. 

 Oriskany Sandstone. 



Lower Helderberg. 



; the Calamites are equally gigantic Horse-tails 

 (Equisetacea} ; and the Sigillarioids, equally huge in size, in 

 some respects hold a position intermediate between the Club- 

 mosses and the Pines (Conifers^. The Devonian rocks have 

 also yielded traces of many other plants (such as Annularia, 

 Asteropliyllites, Cardiocarpon, &c.), which acquire a greater pre- 

 dominance in the Carboniferous period, and which will be 

 spoken of in discussing the structure of the plants of the Coal- 

 measures. Upon the whole, the one plant which may be con- 

 sidered as specially characteristic of the Devonian (though not 

 confined to this series) is the Psilophyton (fig. 77) of Dr. Daw- 

 son. These singular plants have slender branching stems, 

 with sparse needle-shaped leaves, the young stems being at 



