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smooth and the venation quite obscure, except near the end of the 
lobes, where from three to five veins can be made out, one vein 
running to each mucronate point; decorticated examples show 
several parallel nerves about the middle of the leaf. 
The fertile pinnules are of smaller size and Dear alternately 
pinnate, spatulate-oval, (hollow ?) pod-like bodies or sporangia; in 
the examples known these bodies do not extend to the base of the 
pinnule, but there are one or two barren strap-like lobes. 
This pinnule is about an inch and a half long and half an inch 
wide and shows about four spatulate lobes on each side. These 
spatulate lobes show a branched venation and possibly held seed 
vessels which became detached. 
From the number of detached pinnules of this species found 
scattered on layers of the shale it seems probable that the plant 
had a deciduous habit. 
Horizon and Locality. This plant was collected from a 
thin bed of shale about 200 feet below the summit of the 
Dadoxylon sandstone by Mr. Wm. McIntosh, at Duck Cove, 
Lancaster, N. B. — Not rare. 
The resemblance of this plant in its mode of branching etc., 
to Baiera may be seen by comparing its narrow, upright, pinnate 
lobes to the lobes of the leaves of Baiera; compare also the 
alternate pod-like fruit.* 
The following plants were found to occur with this species — 
A species of Cordaites is quite abundant. It is probably a variety 
of Cordaites Robbii, Dn, but the Cardiocarpus which occurs with 
it is smaller and less fleshy than Cardiocarpus cornutus of the 
Lower Cordaite shales. Two abundant plants are an Astero- 
calamites allied to A. scorbiculatus, Schoth. and Catamites cf. C. 
Cistii. And C. cf. Suckovii also occurs but it is not nearly so 
plentiful. The remains of these four plants according to Mr. 
McIntosh comprise three-quarters of the collection made by him 
from this bed. 
Remains of ferns are rarer. There is an Alethopteris differing 
from A. discrepans , Dn, the common species of the Lower Cordaite 
* See Zittel’s Palaeontology Vol. in Plants,, p. 253. 
