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8. Filix minor non ramosa. J. B. vel Dryopteris. Ger. Raii 



Synopsis, p. 48, No. 6. 

 9 Vafietas filicis maris vulg. Petiver. Raii Synopsis, p, 341. 



1(X Typha palustris max. Parkinson. Raii Synopsis, p. 278. 



11. Abies mas vulg. Raii, p. 287- 



They found that 23 bore no resemblance to any plant known in 

 this country ; and the remaining 88 are such as appeared to be 

 like were not unlike or were very little different from certain known 

 plants. The doubtful manner in which these are spoken of, and 

 the little agreement which it is now known exists between these 

 impressions, and known recent plants, give us ground of supposi- 

 tion that these were the remains of plants which are unknown to 

 this country *. 



The plant figured at PI. IV. Fig. 5. is evidently depicted also by 

 Scheuchzer in PI. I. Fig 7- p. 16. Herbarii Diluviani. He says, 

 " Est filicula, et quidem filicula fontana major, sive adianthum al- 

 bum filicis folio. C.B. Pin. 358. Adianthum album filicis folio. 

 J. B* III. 733," &c. The specimen agrees with that which is here 

 depicted, in other respects also. The stone, which came from Si- 

 lesia, is of a margaceous kind, and of an ash colour, tinged with 

 iron ; the plant itself being dark. The specimen of Scheuchzer 

 was also obtained from a coal-mine, at Altwasser, in Silesia. 



The appearance of the specimen PI. III. Fig. 3. and which is 

 represented with the strictest fidelity, is exceedingly uncommon. 

 The matrix is a fine grained sand-stone ; and the vegetable form 

 which it bears is produced, merely, by a very superficial stain of 

 bitumen. Fig. 6. of the same Plate displays a fossil frequently 

 found in the iron-stone of Coalbrook-dale, of Derbyshire, &c. In 

 the centre may be discerned a stalk, with a reticulated, or rather 



* A Catalogue of the English Fossils, &c. Part II. p. 9. 



