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should almost suspect it to belong to a species related to Cyathocrinite* 

 quinquangularis. 



The Baron states that he is in possession of many pentacrinal columnar 

 fragments which appear to appertain to other species, and conjectures that if 

 KNORR'S Pentacrinite, p. 1. t. 11. c. (our P. subangularis) may be considered 

 distinct, the distinct species may at least amount to three. He confirms my 

 assertion in this monograph, that perfect specimens alone can be satisfactorily 

 referred to as furnishing correct characters of the column, which materially 

 differ near its summit. 



4. ENCRINITES RAMOSUS. From the li)0?i)l?Uft&Ui!t?m or cavern lime- 

 stone, not as yet precisely identified with any of the British strata, in the 

 environs of Gluecksbrunnen and Liebe n steiri, in Meiningen. His description, 

 which by no means tends to furnish a specific character, leads me to suspect 

 with the Baron, that the specimen described by him presents the summit of an 

 encrinite, its hands and tentaculated fingers. 



5. ENCRINITES RAMOSUS MAJOR. From Muggendorf, and the Canton Basel, 

 resembling the former, but larger. 



6. ENCRINITES ECHINATUS. From the limestone at Basel ; in pebbles 

 penetrated by iron from Berrach, in Burgundy ; in hornstone from Amberg. 

 From his reference to KNORR, p. i, t. 26, (say 36.; fig. 8. 1 consider this to be a 

 variety of Rhodocrinites, somewhat analogous to the Mitchel Dean variety. 

 He further refers to BOURG, t. 58, fig. 413. and 417. 



7. ENCRINITES MESPILIFORMIS. From Gingen, and Heydenheim, in Suabia . 

 probably the jura formation. If I may judge from the figure (PL. xxix. fig. 5.) 

 the Baron furnishes, and which I have copied in my plate ADUITIONALCRINOIDAL 

 REMAINS, (fig. 17.) I must confess I discover but a very general similarity 

 between (he columnar joints of this species and the Bradford Eucrinite, (our 

 Apiocrinites rotundus) of Mr. PARKINSON, to whom he refers, V. u. t. 14. fig. 

 1 to 3 ; but I agree with the Baron in pronouncing it a distinct species, probably 

 not occurring in England. 



8. ENCRINITES PAKKINSONII. Our APIOCRINITES ROTUNDUS. The Baron 



