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our museum in Jermyn Street), with the delicate coil of 

 pinnae, every leaflet in its place, I almost leaped for joy. It 

 was from the Le Botwood coal-field. There is one figured m this 

 work, vol. iii, p. 460 (but the finder has not yet been told I 

 think, what his fossil is) : it is from South Wales, and a beautiful 

 specimen. 



Fig. 2.—Sphenopteris Schlotheimii, a coal-fern from Strasbourg. 



Our space was too crowded last month to give the necessary figures 

 of the ferns ; and it is but limited now. The leaves or fronds of the 

 delicate Splienopteris, mentioned p. 101, are very abundant. There 

 ore a number of species. 8. elegans, 8. crassa, and especially 

 8, affms occur in the lower coals, beneath the mountain limestone 

 of Scotland ; — 8. <rrtci)u\<!(v/olia, 8. ILminghausi, S. linearis, S. 

 trifoliata, are all characteristic of our upper coals, and the two 

 last are found in France and Germany. Our figure represents the 

 8p, Schhth&imvi of Brongniart, a plant that is found in the coal 

 shales of Strasbourg. 



