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in which they were rooted like plants, or that the rootlets 

 served as an anchor, by which the animal attached itself to 

 foreign bodies. 



Since the above was written we have discovered in the main 

 bed at LeGrand another well marked species of Dichocrinus 

 and a small species of Scaphiocrinua, both new, which remain 

 undescribed. 



