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Remarks. — There were five specimens of this interesting fossil 

 found in the Hutton Collection, but neither of the Type-speci- 

 mens figured in the Fossil Flora among them ; neither did any 

 of them shew the fruit attached to the long axils of the inflor- 

 escence, but on some of the slabs the remains of Cardiocarpon 

 apiculatum and numerous small bivalve shells, Anthracomya, 

 were present. Modern fossil botanists refer this -fossil and the 

 flag-shaped leaves above mentioned to the Cycadacese, but the 

 fruit attached to this inflorescence and the inflorescence itself 

 differ so widely from the fructification of the recent forms of 

 this order that the affinity of Cordaites to the Cycadacese must 

 be doubtful. 



STERNBERGIA, Artis. 



(ARTISIA, Sternberg). 



Sternbergia approximata, Brongniart. 



Type — Sternbergia approximata, L. etH., pi. 224, 225. 



Sternbergia approximata, Brongt., Prod., p. 137. 



,, transversa, Artis, Anted. Phyt., pi. 8. 



Artisia ,, Sternb., Yers. II., pi. 53, f. 7-9. 



256. — Sternbergia approximata, L. et H. Type specimen, pi. 225, f. 3. 

 Cast of a pith in sandstone, slightly tapering, compressed, and 

 curved, and nearly seven inohes in length. The transverse 

 markings very distinct. 



Loc— Newcastle Coal-field. {H. C. 537). 



257. , L. et H. Type specimen, F. F., pi. 225, f. 4. 



Slightly compressed specimen of a pith with very distinct 

 transverse markings ; rather larger than preceding and about 

 six inches in length. 



Loc. — Newcastle-on-Tyne Coal-field. H. C. 535). 



258. , L. et H. Type specimen, F. F., pi. 225, f. 5. 



A cylindrical specimen, apparently basal part of the pith termi- 

 nating in a point. About five inches in length and more than 

 one inch in diameter ; the cross-lines are less distinctly marked 

 than in the preceding, and smaller and sharper at the edge. 



Loc— Newcastle-on-Tyne Coal-field. {E. C. 536). 



