132 Mr. A. S. Woodward on some fig. 2 (' Steinkohlen-Calamarienj' part ii.) ; but they are not so regular. They may have originated from fungi j simiLar formations occur on other plants. The above description and remarks have been forwarded to me by Dr. Weiss, to whom I sent a sketch of the fossil for his examination and description, as his knowledge of this group of fossils is probably more intimate than that of any other palffiobotanist, and especially when impressions of the plant have to be dealt with. The most interesting point in this fossil is the association of the character of Eucalamites and the chain-like leaf-scars of Calaniitina on the same speci-men. I am much indebted to Dr. Weiss for his kind assistance in examining and describing this plant. Horizon. Middle Coal-measures ; in ironstone nodule in shale above " Thick Coal." Locality. Shut End, between Himley and Kingswinford, South Staffordshire. EXPLANATION OF PLATE VII. Eucalamites hrita7inicus, Weiss, u. sp. (natural size). XIV. — Notes on some Vertebrate Fossils from the Province of Baliia^ Brazil^ collected by Joseph Maivson^ Esq., F.G.S. By A. Smith Woodward, F.G.S., F.Z.S., of the British Museum (Natural History). So long ago as the time of Spix and Martius's travels * the occurrence of vertebrate fossils in the rocks of Brazil had been observed ; and during the preparation of his great work upon the " Poissons Fossiles " Agassiz met with numerous examples of fishes from the supposed Upper Cretaceous deposits of the province of Ceara, of which he published two brief notices j". Somewhat later J Mr. Allport made known * J. B. von Spix and C. F. vou Martins, ' Reise in Brasilien,' 1823-31, Atlas, pi. xxii. fig. 5. t L. Agassiz, Appendix to G. Gardner's "Geological Notes made during a Journey from the Coast into the Interior of the Province of Ceara, in the North of Brazil," Edinb, New Phil. Journ, vol. xxx. (1841), p. 83. Also " Sur quelques Poissons fossiles du Bresil," Comptes Rendus, vol. xviii. (1844), pp. 1007-1015. X S. Allport (with notes by Egerton, Morris, and Rupert Jones), "On the Discovery of some Fossil Remains near Bahia in South America," Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. xvi. (1860), pp. 203-268, pis, xiv.-xvii.
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