Misc. Subjects. CXXXIL Vol. FL No. "94. 



REMARKABLE PETRIFICATIONS. 



Petrified Sea- Lilies or Enerinits 

 of Antiquity. 



(E neri ni te s He Imintholithus. 

 Encrinus L.) 



T*]ncrinits or Sea- lilies are petrified kinds 

 of plant- animals of former ages, looking in 

 some manner like the sea - palm , still living 

 in the profundities of the sea of the Antil- 

 les, and probably belonging to the same ge- 

 nus Encrinus. Fig. 1. exhibits a sea- lily, 

 many -branched and closed, with the stalk 

 of many articles, by way of which the living 

 zoophyte kept close to the bottom of the 

 sea. Fig. 2. is an Encrinit of many arms, 



without a stalk, both of them being provi- 

 ded with round joints. Fig. 3. shews the 

 closed main -body, formed like a fig, of an 

 other kind of Enerinits , whose joints are 

 pentagonal, as the basis exhibits, that stuck 

 to the stalk. The other figures are partly 

 single joints of sea- lilies, which are com- 

 monly called by several names, viz: St. 

 Cuthbert's beads, trochytes, astroites etc*, 

 partly they are pieces, formed like a pillar, 

 of such stalks consisting of many articles 

 that rise one above another (6. 7.) being 

 usually called Entrochites, star - stones. Ia 

 many regions of Germany and of other 

 foreign countries the petrified Enerinits are 

 met with ia several kinds of lime -stones. 



