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 FILICITES MILTON I. 



MILTON FILICITE. 



Generic Character. 

 Leaf, or, frond, forming a flat surface, the two sides of which are symmetric ; 

 secondary rib simple or forked. 



Specific Character. 

 FILICITES Miltoni. Leaf, or, frond, tripinnate ; leaflets adherent to the rachis ; 

 fructifications in lines near the margin. 



Synonyms. 



This species of fossil plant does not seem to have been described or figured by 

 any writer on the subject. 



Description and Locality. 



Frond tripinnate ; stipes large, strong. 

 Leaflets linear, tip rounded. 



Fructifications surrounding the leaflets near, but not entirely on, the margin. 

 Found imbedded in shale, in that part of El-se-car new colliery, situated near 

 Milton Furnace. 



Observations. 



The fructifications seated on the back of the leaves are not so closely seated on 

 the margin as is expressed in the plate, neither is the rib of the pinnae so rounded as 

 is represented. 



The plant itself fell from the roof of a chamber in the El-se-car coal mine, at a 

 time when the shale was being riven in search of plants, at which time several tons 

 weight fell down, but the accident was fortunately followed with no other consequence 

 than arose from the alarm. 



There is a slight trace of veins in the original, but so faint that their direction 

 could not be accurately ascertained. 



