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e is is a very striking resemblance. 
Sth. The cicatrices of the leaves in the specimen on the anthracite 
coal are seen placed on the stem in a spiral direction, from t 
impression of the vessels, or perhaps, portions of the vessels would ap- 
pear, as In numerous other specimens of leaves, These markings are | 
what Géppert, in his prize essay, calls. the annual rings of Araucaria; 
~—the specimen on the table was by far the finest one in the collection 
of Mr. Teschemacher. 
He observed that he could not measure the weight of evidence ne 
cite, he had already exhibited specimens of the rattan from Singapores 
(the Palm tribe,) on the epidermis of which were fungi exactly rese™ 
bling, both in appearance and mode of growth, those on the anthracite. 
e now desired to add the following observations. 
When the globular masses from the coal (resembling spheeria) wer? 
exposed to heat sufficient to burn off the carbon and other matter 
much peroxyd of iron remained, as was seen in exhibited specimens; 
