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PART III, 
CARBONIFEROUS FOSSILS. 
Before applying myself to tlic examination of the many animal forms 
lielonging to the Carl.ioniferous Period, I will take a passing glance at some 
of the plant remains of the same jieriod, found at the same time, and often 
in the same rocks, hy the Bev. W. B. Clarke. The number of plant speci- 
mens sent me does not exceed twenty, and the greater part of these are in 
such a had state of preservation that M. Crepin, who was good, enough to 
examine them, could not determine any with certainty, in spite of his great 
experience in such work, and in spite of the plentiful materials for comparison 
at his disposal in the Brussels INfuseum. He says, however, tliat some speci- 
mens resemble Lepidodendron veltlieimianum, Sternberg, others Bornia 
radiata, and others Calaniites varians, Germar ; and these three are dominant 
forms. 
Some of these plant remains arc found in a hard, compact, yellowish- 
grey or greenish limestone ; others in a greyish or brownish friable sandstone ; 
and some are accompanied hy fossils of marine animals, such as stems of 
Crinoids, Broductus, Conularia^ etc. 
Their characteristics show that they do not belong to the Coal Plora 
proper, hut to that preceding it, wdiich is preserved in the rocks on which the 
coal formation rests. 
The localities in which these various plant fragments have been found 
are — the Muree Quarry, Bussell’s Shaft, Glen William, Burragood, and the 
Ichthyodorulite Bange. 
Palseontolo gists and geologists who have the good fortune to visit these 
localities may distinguish themselves, and aid in the progress of science, by 
finding specimens sufficiently well preserved to be satisfactorily identified. 
