Mr. W. N. Edwards on Parkia decipiens, 443 
Don and G. Hickling (Quart. Journ. Geol: Soc. 1917, 
vol. Ixxi. for 1915, pp. 648-666, pl. liv.-lvi.). The purpose 
of the present note is to draw attention to two specimens in 
the Geological Department of the British Museum (Natural 
History) which seem to support the view that Parka may 
have been stalked, for, although Messrs. Don and Hickling 
examined many hundreds of specimens, they found no instance 
of attachment of the plant-body, and came to the conclusion 
that Parka was an entirely independent organism. Similarly, 
Messrs. Reid, Graham, and Maenair (l'rans. Geol. Soe. 
Glasgow, vol. xi. 1898, p. 115) state that Parka has “never 
been found in undoubted organic union with any of the other 
vegetable remains,” though “evidence is not, however, 
wanting of it having been attached to a stalk,” and they 
? Parka decipiens, Fleming. Drawing to show faint indications of 
Parka-like disc impressions, V. 3247, W. How del. x 3. 
figure a “supposed case of stalk attachment” at pl. viii. 
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“The two specimens forming the subject of the present note 
were both obtained from the lower Old Red Sandstone of 
Canterland, Kincardineshire, by the Rev. Hugh Mitchell, 
whose collection was purchased for the Museum in 1893. 
The more interesting of the two, no. V. 3247 (see Pl. XII. 
fig. 4, and text-fig.), consists of a small circular body about 
4 mm. in diameter, apparently attached to a slender stalk 
some 14 mm. in length, which, again, is given off from a 
fragment of a stouter axis about 1 mm. in diameter «and 
18 mm. in length. In the proximal portion of the circular 
