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resembling the pine, araucaria, pence, yew, &c., and hence 

 known as pinites, arauearites, peucites, and to.xites. As 



Calamite ; Bothrodendron : Equis^tites ; Asterophyllit.es; Tepidodendron : C;mlupU:r!s. or 

 Tree-fern ; Sigillaria, with Stigmaria roots ; J.ycopoaues : Peroptcris, xc. 



yet, we have only two or three doubtful instances of a dicoty- 



