56 PENNSYLVANIA AND NEW YORK DEVONIAN, [bull. 120. 
the quarry is about 150 feet higher thau the railroad station at West 
Hurley, which makes an approximate altitude of 680 feet A. T. 1 
On the south side of the northeastern part of the quarry is a shaly 
parting from less than 1 to more than 2 feet in thickness, between 
layers of heavy sandstone. This shale in places contains Psilophyton 
prineeps Dn. in abundance. Fossil plants occur in the massive sand- 
stone and in the large excavation south and southwest of the one with 
the shale, but still, east of the highway is a sandstone stratum in which 
some of the best Hamilton fossil plants that I have ever seen were col- 
lected. Some of these specimens have been examined by Sir William 
Dawson and Prof. D. P. Penhallow, and their observations in connec- 
tion with my own will be given. 
From Lawson's quarry at West Hurley several good specimens of 
Lepidodendron gaspianum Dn. were obtained, oue of which Sir William 
Dawson has seen and identified as above. The upper branches of 
one of the larger specimens show a few leaves along their sides. 
Some of the decorticated upper branches show clearly the elliptical 
depressed areoles, not contiguous, in some of which indications of 
a central scar, sometimes elongated, are preserved. These charac- 
ters agree closely with Dr. Dawson's specific description where it 
was stated, — "Decorticated specimens, slightly compressed, show 
elliptical depressed areoles, not contiguous, and with only traces of the 
vascular scars." 2 The bibliography and references to range and distri- 
bution of this species were recently rmblished, 3 and I will simply quote 
here the conclusions as to the range and distribution of the species. It 
is reported " probably from the Corniferous limestone of Ohio; Middle 
Devonian of Gaspe and New Brunswick; Hamilton, Genesee, Portage, 
and Chemung (?) of New York; Chemung ( ?) of Pennsylvania; Upper 
Devonian of Maine and Gaspe; Pocono possibly of Virginia, and 
Huntingdon County, Pa.; Subcarboniferous doubtfully of Ohio, and 
Crawford County, Pa.; possibly in the Lower Devonian of Belgium, 
and Devonian of France." 4 The New York State Museum at Albany 
contains specimens labeled Lepidodendron gaspianum from the Hamilton 
of Schoharie County, N. Y., Genesee shale of Moravia, N. Y., and a 
large specimen from the Hamilton stage of Gilboa, Schoharie County, 
N. Y. The American Museum of Natural History, Central Park, New 
York, also contains a specimen labeled, " Summit, Schoharie County, 
N. Y., and probably of Hamilton age. 
'The altitud of West Hurley is given as 534 feet in MacFarlane's Am. Geol. Rail. Guide, 2d cd., 
p. 130; Prof Guyot quoting' the records of the Ulster and Delaware Railroad survey, gives 540 feet 
for West Hurley (Am. Jour. Sci. 3d ser., Vol. XIX, p. 449); while in a guidebook on the Catskill 
Mountain issued by the Ulster and Delaware Railroad, in 1890, it is given as 540 feet on p. 31, and 
as 530 feet on p. 56; but Van Loan's Catskill Mountain Guide, 1890, p. 75, gives the elevation as 530 
feet 
2 Quart. Jour. Geo]. Soc, Vol. XVIII, 1862, p. 313; in describing fig. 26, of PL XIV. 
3 Prosser ; Trans. N. Y. Acad. Sci., Vol. XI, 1892, pp. 144-147. 
4 Op. cit., p. 147. 
