174 THE MEDALS OF CREATION. Cuap. VI. 
sented in Plate V. jig. 3% a transverse, and 3° a vertical 
section, viewed by reflected light ; in 3’ the vessels are 
dotted with two parallel longitudinal rows of very minute 
glands, arranged alternately, as in the Araucariz ; a frag- 
ment of one of the medullary rays is seen near the middle of 
the specimen. 
In this deposit of coniferous wood, two or more fruits 
apparently referable to Zamice have been discovered ; one 
specimen, five and a half inches long, and of an elongated 
cylindrical form, covered with rhomboidal eminences, I have 
figured and described as Zamites Sussexvensis.* 
The White Chalk of England has afforded but few traces 
of plants of this family. Fragments of coniferous wood are, 
Lien. 58. FRAGMENT OF ConIFEKOUS WooD IN FLINT. 
From a wall in Lewes Priory. 
however, occasionally found in the state of carbonaceous, or 
reddish brown friable masses, and when this substance is 
removed, the surface of the chalk is seen to be marked with 
impressions of ligneous fibres; sometimes the surface is 
* Geol. Proc. 1843. 
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