220 Chatburn. 



striated Spirifers, and the discoid univalve well-named 

 Euom'phalus. 



The limestone of the neighbourhood contains also in- 

 numerable fossil-specimens of that beautiful and chiefly- 



FIG. 36. FIG. 37. 



Terebratula. Productus. 



(reduced.) (reduced.) 



extinct family of animals called, from their resemblance 

 to an expanded lily-blossom, the " Oinoidea," the word 

 krinon in Greek signifying a lily. We are enjoined to 

 " consider the lilies of the field ; " not foreign to the 

 spirit of the Divine behest is it to consider the lilies of 

 the limestone-rock, which, beautiful as they are now, in 



FIG. 38. 

 Euomphalus. 



the form of petrifactions, must, when alive, have been 

 lovely to the utmost ; and which, carrying back the 

 mind, as they do, into periods immensely earlier than 



