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PLATE XXXIII. 



" Carpolithe, or Fossil Seed-vessel." 

 (Garpolithus marginatus, of Artis.) 



The carbonized husks or shells of nuts, and other carpolithes, or seed-vessels, are not unfre- 

 quently met with in the coal and coal-shale. In the slab of shale figured, there are three 

 specimens of an oval nut, b, g, which is striated longitudinally. These are associated with other 

 vegetable remains, among wliich part of a Lepidostrobus, the supposed cone or strobilus of a 

 species of Lepidodendron (see description of Plate IX.), is conspicuous at a. 



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