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THE GEOLOGIST. 
our museum in Jermyn Street), with the dehcate coil of 
pinnje 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 
thiiik, 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 
are a number of species. 8. elegans, 8. crassa, and especially 
8. afinis occur in the lower coals, beneath the mountain limestone 
of Scotland ; — 8. artemlsicefolia, 8. Honinghausi, 8. linearis, 8. 
trifoliata, are all characteristic of our upper coals, and the two 
last are found in France and Germany. Our figure represents the 
8p. 8clilotlieimii of Brongniart, a plant that is found in the coal 
shales of Strasbourg. 
