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type, being an intermediate form between the radially-expanded, tabulate- 
bladed one of fulcral attachments and the prehensile levers’ fistular bones : 
ac 
in many fishes—consisting of a capitular attaching centre: in ribs the ca- 
The cap talmeh in birds is ver euch rolonged, in rf shortened cleidoid 
roc 
gars, etc., the ca- 
pitulum is coitittly fixed to the coven the rib-blad ade articulating at its 
the capitula are a series of pointed pegs proj jecting 
are een loosely to ‘the merely — Espns tke, and muncaloun- 
wi : in tro 2, , 
ise the loose spiniform tubercula: which 1 P series of bristly ribs, 
ocesses is laminate 
continuous s) capitula t aly 
to say the least, in our presen nt ichthyognostic dictionari in deter- 
. arrived at in eter: 
it cannot be astonishing that so little success ne view) proposition of 
mining the “catholic” (0 r, respecting a pant é ithout the 
their relation and relatio nship : a fault of diagnostic rhe bot being 
proffered aid of iticeup hic pantoscopic Col bilater- 
subtended longitudinally by a eystem of block sy tee oie forma- 
y, with on cartilaginous pellucid menis ase ‘mt 
tion (both the sternal as well as apical elements being of a low number 
ate) it is to b umed a tree of life co ed ote es each section or 
(2 to 5 at most) of subcartilaginous primogenital . z, ooo two lateral 
Joint of vertebral form bear’ hes, two nit increased 
or ventral tren pees a of - Bae 3 or 6, in im or arch, nave 
cyclar num : at eit the dorsal 
de fo 
or gangway, originally’ opel (bifid) "but eateequenly ad up; 
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