270 Notice on Vegetable Fossils, 
by the reasons which lead to its admission in the special 
work which my son will publish on this subject. 
I stated, at the commencement of this notice, that - 
fact here described was not new to geologists. Amon 
instances which have been noticed of the stalks of fossil Aa 
etables, traversing several strata, or being placed vertically 
in the bosom of the earth, I shall call to recollection those 
which appear to me to have the strongest analogy with the 
example. of the mine of St. Etienne: these citations will 
contribute to establish the resemblances equally real and 
remarkable which the coal grounds of all countries offer, 
in THENY: particular, as well of their formation as of their 
structur 
Mr. j tas a observed in the coal ypronnds of mien 
near Pennycuik, ten miles from 
trunk of the length of about 12 pk ere (4 feet), — 
was composed of carbonaceous sandstone (psammite) and 
the bark or the substance that here replaces it is composed 
of coal. This trunk was not only striated longit y 
like the stalks of St. Etienne, baci? was divided like them by 
transverse sections or articulations.* 
A fact, very similar to the above, appears to wer been 
observed in the coal ground of South Shields. 
. de Schlotheim also cites instances of ' vertical stalks at 
Kiff ee in Hartz,t in the mines of Maneback, peat 
d’Ilmenau, &e. 
But the instances which jon the strongest st analogy with 
that which I have described, are eniheee observed in Saxony 
by Werner, by Messrs. Voigt and d’Aubuisson, in the coal 
grounds of the environs of hen, and by Messrs. Habel 
aad. Noggeradivin the coal mins fhe coun abot Su 
Bitiothigee te igeaiaae V. Vill. Geure, which js there 
given * Jo shal, an ing so above the cartalsn of 
the sttide been ound the design, and that 
behind it should have been represented the lagers i which it was and re- 
mained engaged. 
+ Ibid. V. Vili. p. 234. This fact, presented in a very vague manner, 
can hardly be given as an example from Sil ee 
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