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DAEMONELIX CIGARS, OR FINGERS. 



Immediately above the last-named horizon occurs a much 

 more interesting and complex form, called by my party Dae- 

 monelix Cigars or Fingers; and as they lay at our feet, weath- 

 ered out in great numbers, they resembled cigars as much as 

 anything to which they could be likened. (Plate IV.) 



Fig. 5. 



Fig. 5.— Daemonelix "Cigar" or "Finger," tip end. Reduced one- 

 half. These occur next above the Daemonelix Balls and extend well 

 through the Daemonelix beds, but apparently not quite to the top. 

 Vertical and somewhat spiral in habit. Length, from a few centimeters 

 to one meter. 



These have acquitted a pronounced vertical habit, and a 

 noticeable tendency to the spiral form. Unlike the two pre- 

 ceding forms, the Daemonelix cigar is not confined so strictly 

 to a particular horizon, but is found in increasing numbers, 

 from its first appearance, up to the middle of the regular Dae- 

 monelix beds, and in diminishing numbers thence to the top- 

 most beds. Sometimes they branch loosely, but more com- 

 monly they do not. We have measured some specimens which 

 exceeded a meter in length, although the average specimen is 

 scarcely one-third as long, while the fragments seen every- 

 where are about the size and shape of the ordinary cigar. 



If one peculiarity of these Daemonelix cigars is more inex- 

 plicable than another, it is the fact that the ends of all branches, 

 and the upper and lower ends of the trunk itself, terminate, as 

 nearly as the author can learn, in blunted rounded points. 

 Who can say, then, which is top and which is bottom, or whethef* 

 they grew upward or downward? Furthermore, the heaviest 

 and best preserved structure caps these ends, just as if they 



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