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the eminent authors of that work ; but it presents in its 
imbricated character a greater analogy to a pine cone. 
ZAMITES SUSSEXIENSIS.—At Willingdon, near Eastbourn, in 
Sussex, a cone nearly six inches long was discovered in a bed 
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Fig. 1.—Zamitres Crassus. Wealden, Isle of Wight. 
2.—ZAMITES OvatTus. Greensand, Kent. 
of Greensand, which abounds in fossil coniferous wood : it is 
of an elongated cylindrical form, and covered with hexa- 
gonal scales. I have provisionally named it Zamites Sus- 
seniensis (Geol. Proc. 1843), as it presents a nearer resem- 
blance to the fruit of Zamize than to that of Conifers. 
TRUNKS AND Stems oF Cycapacez.—In this section I 
shall notice the fossil plants which occur so abundantly in 
the fresh-water deposits that overlie the marine oolitic lime- 
stone of the Isle of Portland, and which must be familiar to 
my readers, from the graphic account of the circumstances 
under which they occur, by Mr. Webster, and subsequently 
by Dr. Buckland, and Sir H. De la Beche. In my Won- 
ders of Geology, p. 387, and Geol. Isle of Wight, p. 395, 
the geological phenomena of that most interesting locality, 4 
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