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' Geological Society's Transactions/ there can be no doubt ; 

 but the only "additions" indicated in the notes to this, 

 the third edition, appear to be the following : 



Mr. Robert Brown has ascertained, by examination of a 

 trunk of Cycadites microphyllus, from Portland, the ex- 

 istence of scalariform vessels without discs, in the mature 

 trunk ; a point in which, he informs me, these fossils agree 

 with the American portion of the order CycadecB, though, 

 in other respects, they bear a greater resemblance to the 

 African and Australian species. Mr. Brown observes 

 further, that the order Cycadece presents but one genus in 

 America, namely, the Zamia, on which this genus was 

 originally founded, and to which it has been recently re- 

 stricted ; and that the coincidence in the structure of the 

 scalariform vessels in the trunk of this Zamia of the New 

 World, with that of the fossil Cycadites of Europe, is 

 very remarkable. Buckland's Bridyewater Treatise, new 

 edition, 1858, vol. i, pp. 461, 462. 



Mr. Robert Brown has noticed in the cellular tissue of 

 a sUicified trunk of Cycadites, portions of chalcedony bear- 

 ing the form of extravasated gum within the trunks of 

 recent Cycadecs. He has also recognised spiral vessels in 

 the laminated woody circle of a mature trunk of fossil 

 Cycadites, and also in the laminated circle within a silici- 

 fied bud of the same, near its origin. Ibid., vol. ii, p. 102. 



Mr. [now Sir] R. I. Murchison, in a paper on the 

 " Fossils found at CEningen," says — 



" Mr. R. Brown has discovered that among these plants, 



one is almost indistinguishable in the leaf from the Acer 



viUosum, a species of maple brought from Nepaul by 



Dr. Walhch." Geol. Trans., 2nd ser., vol. iii, p. 287 



-(1835). 



Mr. Horner, in a note to his paper " On the Geology of 

 the Environs of Bonn," says — 



" I visited the hgnite deposit at Eriesdorf, in September, 

 1835, in company with Mr. Robert Brown, when he col- 

 lected several specimens of the vegetable remains. He m- 



