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POSSIBLE NEW COAL-PLANTS IN COAL. Part II. 
By W. S. Geesley, F. G. S., F. G. S. A., Erie, Pa. 
(Plates II, III, IV, V.) 
The editor of this magazine having expressed a wish that 
the results qf my continued research in fossil plants, be pub- 
Hshed (see Vol. XXIV, p. 199, Oct. 1899), in order to show 
(i) progress made in determining the organized plant con- 
stitution of coal, and (2) that possibly there may be something 
new herein, I gladly avail myself of this opportunity. 
In presenting further installments in this increasingly in- 
teresting line of investigation, I desire to say, first, that my in- 
tention has been to illustrate only such objects and anatomical 
structures as I have detected in coal which have not, so far as 
I have been able to ascertain, been already figured and de- 
scribed. Secondly, I make no pretension to be a botanist, but, 
in making the drawings of the specimens, have carefully avoid- 
ed the imaginative and the fanciful. I have endeavored to see 
what the specimens had to reveal, and then, to draw, to scale as 
far as possible, what I saw or believed I saw in them and re- 
jecting that which I had no reason to suppose would add value 
to the matter. Thirdly: By way of increasing interest in these 
fossils, where advisable, notes or suggestive remarks have 
been made, following the descriptions of the figures in the 
plates. 
Should a further interest be evinced in this connection, the 
author announces that he possesses what he believes to be a 
very interesting addition to our knowledge of the Carbonifer- 
ous coal-plant inflorescence, fructifications and allied forms 
and fragments, some of which may prove to be new to science. 
Reference to Plate. II. 
Fig. I. Vertical section of a fragment of anthracite showing por- 
tions of two layers of nearly black and compact coaly material, appar- 
ently consisting of little black elongated or distorted rings embedded in 
a dark gray matrix, and filled with a very similar material. The lower 
edge of the upper layer and the upper one of the lower layer consist of 
black material not unlike that constituting the ring-like bodies. That 
these black and gray bodies are not really rings nor oolitic in form-, but 
are tubular, becomes evident when the specimen of coal is examined 
on its side face or longitudinal or oblique fractures. 
