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preserved, the leaf-scars are not shown to advantage. The slab containing this 
specimen also shows a cross section of a species of Syringopora, and contains several 
specimens of Svminula sp. On the back of the slab is a portion of a branch bearing 
the cone referred to previously, and I found on development that the branch continued 
through the stone to the other side, where faint traces of it were visible a little to one 
side ot the branches just described. The cone appears in section, the separation of 
the slab having passed through its central axis. Both halves exhibit very clearly 
a long peduncle coming off at right angles to the stem. This is clothed with 
acicular bracts for a distance of three-quarters of an inch, where traces of sporophylls, 
ending in long points, begin to appear. ‘lhe cone has a width of about half an inch, 
and measures 27 inches in length, including the peduncle, but has undoubtedly been 
much longer, as the top portion is missing. Owing to its bad state of preservation, 
no further details can be made out with certainty. 
On another fragment of limestone, a portion of a dichotomously divided stem 
occurs, which exhibits, fairly well, the characteristic hexagonal leaf-scars of the 
older branches of A. Vanuxemi. ‘These scars are rather longer than broad, and 
measure 4°56 mm. by 3mm., the width of the stem beme 9mm. No vascular 
cicatricule, however, can be made out. 
Bothrodendron sp. 
This consists of a flattened portion of a large stem, which has come out free from 
the matrix. It measures 55 inches in length, 24 to 3 inches in breadth, and is 
2 inches in thickness. The surface is a mere film of carbonaceous matter, on which 
leaf-scars are distinctly visible in several places. These scars are 7 mm. apart, 
disposed in rows 10 mm. apart, each row winding round the stem in the usual 
rapidly ascending manner. ‘The specimen is too badly preserved to be specifically 
identified. 
Topograpay and Guontocy or Muarnop Fetr. 
Meathop Fell, which lies about a mile and a half east of Grange- 
over-Sands, is an isolated exposure of Carboniferous Limestone, 
surrounded on all sides by alluvial flats and salt-marsh. It is a little 
more than a mile in length, and just over half a mile in breadth; 
its greatest height above sea-level is 179 feet. On its south-east side 
it is cut off, by the Kent Estuary, from the Arnside Beds, which come 
next in succession. ‘The exposure may be described as being made up 
of a series of beds of impure limestone, more or less dolomitic, 
separated at intervals by thin earthy bands. The limestone is 
extremely hard, compact in texture, and breaks with a conchoidal 
fracture. It has been much quarried for strong plain work, such 
as engine beds, foundations, etc., but is not suitable for sculpture. 
The general dip of the beds is at a very low angle, it being about 
8° §.E. 
Fossils are not numerous in species, but large masses of Syringopora, 
along with a few small Cyathophyllids, etc., occur weathered out 
in relief on the cliff face, especially at Meathop Fell end. The 
Syringopora appear to consist of two forms; in one case the corallites 
are very small, not more than 5%; of an inch in diameter, geniculated, 
and with fairly numerous connectors; in the other case the corallites 
are distinctly larger, closely set, and nossess a thick wrinkled epitheca ; 
connectors fairly numerous, walls of corallites rather thick; diameter 
about 1 line. his form agrees very closely with S. geniculata of 
Hdwards & Haime’s figs. 2 and 2a of plate xlvi.! 
Near the top of the Fell, an impure limestone band, several inches 
thick, occurs, which appears to be entirely made up of specimens 
1 A Monograph of the British Fossil Corals, 1852 (Pal. Soc.). 
