30 Trans. Acad. Set. of St. Louis. 



entering into the incision of lower series of plates first 

 mentioned terminate near the lower margin of them. The 

 whole surface is granulated; these grains have a tendency 

 to run parallel to the sides of the plates.* 



" No ovary or oral aperture is visible on the surface; they 

 may nevertheless have existed in the live state, and have 

 been obliterated during fossilification, because judging from 

 siliceous internal casts of the same I think I perceive traces 

 of such apertures. They occur near Shelby ville, Bedford 

 Co., Devonian, and in Allen County, Ky. 



" Granatocrinites globosus mihi. 



PL III., Fig. 4. 



"It differs from G. cidariformis in being globular, having 

 at the base a circular cavity, the junction of the lower 

 series of plates with those of the superior being curvilinear, 

 and the surface being very irregularly granulated, whereas 

 the G. cidariformis is oval, has a pentagonal basal cavity, the 

 junction of the above mentioned place is rectilinear and its 

 surface regularly granulated. Bedford County, Tennessee." 



To judge from this insufficient description it is not un- 

 reasonable to suppose that as the Doctor received more 

 material, he changed the name without removing the label 

 granularis, regarding both as the same species, otherwise I 

 should think he would have inserted this name in his list. 

 Although this species is a very rare one it was well known to 

 our most distinguished palaeontologists, for Dr. Shumard 

 possessed specimens of it in his collection. It is also rep- 

 resented in Doctor Yandell's collection, and in the catalogue 

 of Worthen's collection offered for sale in 1889, we find 

 under number 66 two specimens named by Worthen, Granato- 

 crinus granulosus, Roemer, from Maury County, Tennessee. 



These two specimens are now in the Illinois State Col- 

 lection with the same label under number 10066, and one of 



* This is an incorrect statement, because the specimen shows just the 

 reverse. 



