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PLATE LVIX. 



Cryptomerites divaricatus, 



Phill. 



This specimen is thus referred to by Professor W. C. 

 Williamson, F.R.S. 



April 27th, 1837. 

 No. 1 [the upper figure] is a very peculiar little plant of which I 

 have only had two specimens : it appears to have been of a semi-succulent 

 nature, but being preserved in a gray granular ironstone its more minute 

 characters are ill-defined. At first sight it resembles Lycopodites, but 

 its more regular pinnated form and the thick and distinct stem and rachis 

 distinguish it. The central stem has evidently not been smooth, but a 

 scaly character, though * from the change the plant has undergone these 

 scales present no distinct form. The small pinnules branch irregularly 

 from the rachis, sometimes opposite or sometimes alternating, but the 

 little leaflets are generally alternate, and these are arranged in a similar 

 manner though less distinctly on either side of the rachis. They are from 

 a seam of ironstone in the Upper Sandstone of Phillips, a few miles north 

 of Scarborough. No. 2 [the lower figure] is a magnified pinnule. 



(Hutton MSS.) 



