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NOTE ON SPIRANGIUM CARBONAEIUM (Sf^riMPER). BY REV. J. 
STANLEY TUTE, B.A. 
I wish to record the occurrence of a specimen of Spirangium 
carhonariuDi in carboniferous sandstone. It was discovered in 
breaking a boulder of sandstone from the drift. Unfortunately the 
man (who was breaking- stones for the repair of the road) only pre- 
served the fossil, and not the matrix, so that we have only an 
internal cast, together with the substance of the fossil itself to 
determine its nature and geological position. 
SPIRANGIUM CARBONARIUM. Schimper. 
All the sandstones in that part of the drift in which it was 
found, are in no case more recent than the Plumpton Grit ; this, 
Avhich is certainly not Plumpton Giit, must be from older rocks, 
probably from one of the members of the Yoredale series. This is 
interesting, as the oldest specimen of Spirangium hitherto described 
is from the coal measures of Coalbrooke Dale, and is described in 
Professor Prestwich's paper, Plate XXXVIII., Pig. 12. The 
following species, as well as this, are described in Schimptn's 
Paleontologie Vegetale, Vol. TL, p. 514, PI. 80:— 
1. Spirangium carbonarium. Upper Coal Measures, AVettin, 
Saxony. 
2. S. regulare. Bunter, Soultz-le-bains, Alsace. 
?). S. Quenstedti. Variegated chalk, Keuper sandstone, AVald- 
hausen. 
4. S. Miinsteri. Rhetic, Strullendorf, near Bausberg. 
5. S. ventricosum. Inferior Lias Sandstone, Couches Autuii. 
S. jugleri. Clay Schists Wealden, Deistei-, TIanover. 
