PLATE XXX. 
View of n fragment of a thin limestone layer, magnified two diameters. In this layer the 
slender ramose species such as Di p/oclcma sparsum, Nematopora minuta, and Acan- 
thoclema asperum are particularly abundant. 
Roehester shale, near locks of Erie Canal, Lockport, N. Y. 
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