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cristata, S. Grovenhorstii , N. -pseudo-Murrayana, S. 
elcgans and S. intermedia . 
Fruit spikes found at Bristol, have afforded a few nice speci¬ 
mens. One, in our possession, discloses a stem with four seed- 
lobes arrayed opposite each other and appears to be an exact 
identification of the Calamostachys as drawn by the German 
Professor Schimper.* Unfortunately it is disconnected from the 
trunk, although the same specimen furnishes an ordinary Calamite. 
The uncertainty that has lingered about the Calamostachys doubt¬ 
less receives some light from this valuable specimen. The writer 
has also the wing of an insect taken at Bristol, R. I., perhaps 
hitherto unnamed. If found to be a new species, the name Blatta 
Americana might serve for a temporary use. 
The study of the Flora of the Rhode Island Coal Measures is 
worthy of enlisting the interest of all the members of the Newport 
Natural History Society. The writer, in closing, desires to 
express his obligations to Prof. Leo Lesquereux, Prof. T. Nelson 
Dale, Prof. Hitchcock, Charles M. Salisbury, Esq., and numerous 
friends at Warren, Bristol and Newport, who have aided in his 
tours among the rocks. 
* Zittel u. Schimper , Handbuch der Palceontologie. — Leipzig. 
