NOTES. 269 
448, where he says, —“‘ There now seems evidence enough to con- 
clude that they are the remains, not of the eggs of an animal, but 
of the seed of a plant.” 
ADDITIONAL Note, By Rey. W. S. Symonps. — These fossils 
— Parka decipiens —now known to be the seeds of a plant, are 
abundant in the Kidderminster beds. See also Plate xi. 
NOTE K, Pace 149. 
For recent additions made to the flora and fauna of the English 
and Irish Old Red Sandstone, see Siluria, in “ Lyell’s Elements ” 
and “ The Geological Journal,” vol. xii. 
NOTE L, Pace 156. 
See “The Testimony of the Rocks,” pages 247 and 248. See 
also Plate xiv 
NOTE M, Pace 170. 
See, in connection with this remark, the quotations in note G. 
May not the fact here mentioned of the Pterichthys occurring in 
the Caithness and Fifeshire beds, and not in the Forfarshire, be 
another argument for the greater antiquity of the latter ? 
NOTE N, Pace 196. 
From the tenor of the remarks at p. 453 of “ The Testimony 
of the Rocks,” it will be seen that Mr. Miller had come latterly 
to regard the conglomerate of the south of the Grampians as the 
analogue of that of Caithness. In November 1856 he decidedly 
expressed this as his matured opinion, in conversation with the 
writer. 
NOTE 0, PAGE 257. 
The organism here referred to is now ascertained to have been 
a root, and not an independent plant, — the root, namely, of the 
Sigillaria. See “The Testimony of the Rocks,” pages 65-7. 
