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chiefly through the hherality of the Berg-Meister, we are enabled to give 

 the following- results, which we communicate, as nearly as possible, in the 

 words of M. Adolphe Brongniart, who kindly undertook an examination of 

 our specimens, 



"After an examination of all the specimens, I am still in doubt as to the 

 greater number of them ; for, either from their being too incomplete, or from 

 not having made a sufficient number of comparisons, I am unable to arrive at 

 very precise results. They appear to me to belong to eleven species. 



" 1. Juniperites suhulata. The form and the insertion of the leaves appear 

 to me to indicate a Juniperus, allied to, though distinct from, that found in 

 the lignite formations of Bohemia, which I have named in my "Prodromus" 

 Juniperites acutifolia. I possess specimens from the freshwater formation of 

 Armissau near Narbonne, apparently of the same species. 



" 2. Juniperites (??) cespitosa, {hycopodiolites cespitosus Schloth. ex 

 specimine ctb auctore tnisso). The leaves, which are linear, obtuse, and 

 dilated at the base, are more numerous than in the preceding species, and are 

 disposed without any distinct order, which induces me very much to doubt 

 whether it be a Juniperus, or even one of the Conifera. A specimen of my 

 own from the same locality, which appears to me decidedly of the same spe- 

 cies, presents capitula of fruit at the extremity of the branches, much more 

 resembling a capitulmn of the Compositce than the fruit of a Cupressus, or 

 any other of the Coniferce. The place of this plant is therefore entirely un- 

 certain. 



"3. Thuja nudicaulis. Branches naked, with small opposite tubercles and 

 a laterally inserted fruit, having only a single scale, and therefore closely 

 resembling the fruit of the Thuja. If the fruit really belong to this branch, 

 it is beyond doubt a Thuja, and allied to T. articulata. 



" 4. Comptonia hreviloha. A new species intermediate between the living 

 species and the two known fossil species. 



"5. 6. 7. 8. Phyllites, four species, differing from all the fossil species I 

 am acquainted with. Judging from the analogous arrangement of their nerves, 

 and the shape of their dentations, they belong apparently to the same genus 

 of plants. It might perhaps be determined to what family they belong, but 

 very numerous comparisons are yet wanting. 



"^■^ 9. 10. P/?j///«<es, indeterminable. 



"11. Ph?/ llites, with three nerves — very distinct, however, from another 

 species with three nerves (common in many tertiary formations), the margin 

 of which is entire, while the margin of this is regularly toothed. 



" It is very remarkable that among the multitude of fossil leaves I possess 



