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This letter will be found printed in full at p. 75, in 

 the reference to Plate XXXVII. 



The next is a note from the late Sir Roderick I. 

 Murchison, Bart., etc. : — 



Nuested House, Peteesfield, 



March 30th, 1837. 



Deae Lindley, — My chapter on the Clee Hills coal-field is going to the 

 press, and among the plants cited on your authority are three species of 

 Sphenopteris, S. crenata, S. zamioides, S. furcata, which I state are to be 

 figured by you (1834 your MSS.), and yet I cannot find them in the 

 " Fossil Flora." 



You certainly so named the plants, for I have your letter to that 

 effect. Is it that they have been mislaid or forgotten ? 



Yours ever, 

 (Signed) Eod. I. Muechison. 



The rest follows as a P.S. 



I intended to have gone to Worcester this week, and I therefore 

 requested that the plants of the New Eed might not be sent until I saw 

 them and selected from them. 



Having, however, given up my journey for the present, intending to 

 go at Whitsuntide, I shall order them up to town. 



If there is any one of the species alluded [to] not figured I would re- 

 quest you to name it Sphenopteris Lewisii, after Mr. Lewis, in whose 

 coal-field of KnowTbury they were all found. 



Whenever you publish a list of errata, permit me to send you some 

 essential corrections of spelling (Knowlbury among others). 



Whose name is Lepidodendron tetragonum ? Is it Sternberg's ? 



I further observe that in this Knowlbury basin, in the Clee Hills, 

 there are two unpublished Sigillarige, besides the Sphenopteris Murchisoni 

 — either of these might be named after Mr. Lewis. 



If there has been any mistake the original specimens are at the Geo- 

 logical Society. 



I shall be in town on Wednesday next. 



