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plate above alluded to, is an Asterophillites of Brongni- 

 art, or Annularia of Sternberger. 



There are other plants with stellate leaves, with which, 

 perhaps, the fossil Equisetum might be confounded, as 

 the Hippuris, Asperuia, Galium, &c. But if the plant 

 figured by Brongniart, pi. 12, fig. 13, be an Equisetum, 

 there can be no doubt of our species. 



