148 THE MEDALS OF CREATION. Cuap. VI. 
fruits or seed-vessels, which much resemble those of the 
Thuya or Arbor Vite, and are so often found imbedded with _ 
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Fa SS } Zz — 
Lian. 43. Fig. 1.—SPHENOPHYLLUM SCHLOTHEIMI; zat. 
2.—SPHENOPHYLLUM EROSUM. 
Coal-Shale. 
masses of the foliage of Asterophyllites, that it is conjectured 
they belong to those plants. They occur in groups of from — 
five to twenty, and evidently were didymous, 2.e. grew in 
pairs. J/g. 1a. is an enlarged view, to show the surface left 
by the attachment of the twin-seed. 
Trigonocarpum. Lign. 44. figs. 3. 4.—These fruits, which — 
resemble those of certain Palms, are often met with in the 
coal-mines of Leicestershire and Yorkshire; frequently — 
occurring in groups of thirty or forty, as if they were the 
scattered seeds of a raceme of a Palm: they are referred to 
the genus Veggarathia, a tree of the carboniferous forma- 
tion allied to the Palms. 
A figure of a fossil fruit from the Oolite—Carpolithes 
Bucklandi, is introduced in Lign. 44, fig. 2, and will be 
described hereafter. i 
