Canada 
Geological Survey 
Victoria Memorial Museum 
BULLETIN No. 1 
XI . — A New Species of Lepidostrobus. 
By W. J. Wilson. 
During the summers of 1909 and 1910 the writer spent a 
short time at the Minto coal mines near Grand lake, New 
Brunswick, collecting fossil plants. These fossils are found in 
great abundance in a somewhat dark grey shale lying above 
the coal. A portion of the shale is removed in mining the coal 
and thrown on the dump. The shale is fine and free from grit 
and has preserved perfectly the minutest impressions of the 
plants. Unfortunately for the collector, the shale, which is 
hard and firm when first thrown out, begins to crumble as soon 
as exposed to the changes of the atmosphere and in a short 
time is reduced to a fine powder. If, however, it is collected 
as soon as it comes from the mine and kept dry, it remains 
solid indefinitely. Although plant remains are abundant and 
for a long time have been known to occur in the vicinity of 
Grand lake, no systematic collecting has been done in the past. 
Sir J. W. Dawson has identified or described about thirty 
species from different places in the Grand Lake basin, chiefly 
from Coal creek, for the most part collected by Professor 
C. F. Hartt, 
Among the many beautiful specimens collected by the writer 
at the Minto mines there were several fragments of cones be- 
longing to the genus Lepidostrobus , two being sections with the 
scales attached. Besides these there were over fifty detached 
scales, some of them perfect, showing both sporangiophore and 
blade. These scales when separate from the cone are usually 
