Rare Species of Fossil Shell. 



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under sides of these scales, as they -come into perfection, 

 become covered with numerous globules (c), the anthers, 

 which expand into little cups, out of which a quantity of 

 yellow powder, pollen, falls, of a beautiful shining orange 

 colour, which emits a very exhilarating resinous fragrance. 

 The remains of the catkin produced in 1826 still hung down 

 under the leaves, a number of the scales having fallen or been 

 rubbed off from its top.] 



Art. X. A Notice and an Enquiry on a rare Species of Fossil 

 Shell discovered in a Chalk-Pit near Lewes, and deemed to be a 

 Species of Cbnia. By Robert Hudson, Esq. 



The accompanying drawing [copied in Jig. 19.] is an 

 accurate representation of a fossil shell, which I found some 

 little time back in a chalk-pit near Lewes, and which I believe 



