Locality. Not unfrequent in the red-bole or ochre bed, which passes into an iron-ore deposit, interstratified with the basalt, railway-cutting between Templepatrick and Doagh stations, Belfast and Northern Counties Railway.
Sequoia Du Noyeri, Baily Plate XV. fig. 4, a & b.
Branches covered by closely arranged, elongate and acuminate leaves, each with a strong, longitudinal, median depression.
This species is closely allied to S. Sternbergi, Goepp., sp., figured by Prof. Heer in 'Flora Fossilis Arctica' (p. 140, p1. 24. figs. 7-10), but differs in the closer and more imbricated character of the arrangement of the leaves upon the stem.
It occurs at the same locality and in the same deposit as the preceding species.
Cupressites MacHenrii, Baily. Plate XV. fig. 5, a & b.
Leaves small and closely imbricating, branches alternating and divergent.
Allied to C. pychnophylloides, Massalongo, 'Flora Fossile Senigalliese, p. 151, p1. 5. figs. 17, 18, 19.
In iron-ore deposit, from the same locality as the previous species.
EXPLANATION OF PLATES.
Illustrative of Fossil Plants from Beds interstratified with the Basalt of Antrim.
Plate XIV.
Fig. 1. ?Platanus: a, portion of leaf showing reticulated surface; b, part of the same enlarged. This specimen has the cast of a seed impressed upon it.
2. ?Fagus. An imperfect ovate leaf, with an obsoletely denticulate margin;allied to Fagus incerta, Massalongo, Flora Senigalliese, pl. 30. fig. 3.
3. Upper portion of a narrow lanceolate leaf, probably allied to Podocarpus medoacensis, Mass. ibid. pl. 34. fig. 20.
4. ?Andromeda. A small linear-lanceolate leaf, probably allied to Andromeda vetulonioe, Mass. ibid. pl. 34. fig. 13.
5. ?Quercus. Lanceolate leaf, resembling that of the Evergreen Oak (Quercus Ilex).
6. ?Quercus. Lanceolate leaf, tapering at each extremity, allied to Quercus nereifolia, A. Braun in Mass. ibid. pl. 31. fig. 6.
7. ?Rhamnus. Upper portion of an acuminate leaf resembling Rhamnus Deckenii, Web. in Mass. ibid, plates 26 & 27, and 30. fig. 7.
8. ?Rhamnus. Portion of an acuminate leaf, most probably identical with the preceding (fig. 7).
9. 10, 11, 12, 13. Carpolithes, undetermined.
14. a. Elytron of a small beetle with peculiar punctation (enlarged); b, a single punctum more highly magnified.
15. Elytron of a small beetle, rather larger in size than the preceding one (fig. 14) and with more closely set and more numerous puncta (enlarged).
These minute wing-cases, the natural size of which is shown by the adjacent lines, in shape and mode of punctation are not unlike those of the
