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elegant appearance when 
aX eer a ~ a Pe iad, 
herbaceous plants with 
_ the former, but the whorls 
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ANNULARIA. GCARDIOCARPON. 147 
flowering dicotyledons, for small seed-vessels resembling 
those of the Cypress are often found with the foliage. 
The Annularie were 
verticillate foliage like 
were arranged on the 
same planewith the stems 
on which they grew, and 
their remains have a very 
expanded in the coal 
schists. It is supposed 
that they were aquatic 
plants, and that the 
stems and leaves floated 
on the surface of the 
water.* 
SPHENOPHYLLUM (wedge- 
shaped leaf). Lign. 43. 
—The fossil vegetables 
thus named, though ves sban uae eo bla nat. 
somewhat resembling in Coal-shale. (Foss. Flor.) 
their elegant verticillate foliage the Asterophyllites, differ 
essentially, and are regarded by M. Brongniart as herbaceous 
plants related to the Marsiliacee, or Pepper-worts. The 
leaves are triangular, truncated at the summit, and very 
deeply lobed and dentated. The fructification consists of 
sessile axillary or terminal spikes, composed of verticillate 
bracteze, covering the receptacles. This mode of fructifica- 
tion resembles that of the Asterophyllites.t 
Carprocarpon.—Lign. 44, fig. 1.—These are small fossil 
* Wond. p. 717. Petrifactions, pp. 27,43, &c. For coloured figures 
See Pictorial Atlas, pl. v. 
T For details consult Tab. des Genres de Vég. Foss. p: 52. 
