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Of "Petrify d Plantf, Part III 
ANOTHER of the fame. And alfo with a double 
Ring of Rays $ fo as to look like one of thefe Stones within 
another. And may therefore of all the kinds, be moft pro- 
perly called ENTROCHITES. 
A FLAT ENTROCHITE. All the former are per- 
fectly round: this comprefs'dj one way, an inch over; 
the other, about * ths . 
ANOTHER, a fmall one of the fame (hape. 
A THIRD, not only flat, but alfo with two oppofite 
edges, like the Scabbard of a Rapier. 
The BRANCHED ENTROCHITE. Yet here the 
Branches, which grew alternately as Twigs on a Bough, are 
broken off! In one, leaving fo many cavities in the Trunks 
on which they grew. In another, fo many Knots. In both, 
radiated, and containing a Pith, as the Trunk, it felf. 
The KNOTED ENTROCHITE. A very odd Species. 
Above two inches long, and * in Diametre. The Surface 
fmooth, yet with an obfeure appearance of Joynts. The 
Knots, no way like thofe in the laft mention d, as not being 
radiated 5 and looking more like the bafes of fturdy Thomes. 
Wherewith it not unaptly refembles a piece of a Crab-Tree- 
Cudgel. Tis compofed of three diftinct fubftances. The 
outer part, ( as one would fay, the Barque ) is a flaky and 
glofly Spar, as in the reft. But as black almoft as Jet. The 
middle part is Ore of Marcafite,ot Yellow Mundick. The Pith, 
not unlike Tobacco-Pipe-Clay, when baked pretty hard. 
A fort not much unlike thefe, being found in the Ifle 
j)Phih Malta, by fome faith Mx.Ray, (a) arecalFd StPAVLS 
rag. n. BATTOONS. 
The SYNTROCHITE, as we may name it, to diftin- 
guilh it from the reft. It confifts of feveral Joynts as the 
former - y yet not piled evenly one over another fo as 
to make a Cylinder: but fliden as it were half on and 
half off. 
The TROCHITES. Tis nothing elfe but one of the 
above defcribed Joynts Angle 3 on both fides radiated, and 
alfo containing a Pith. So that it looks like a llice of a flick. 
Thefe, faith Mr. Lyfler, being ufually hollow, or eafily fo 
made, and ftringed, are therefore by fome called St. CVTH- 
BERDS BEADS. 
The ASTROCHITES. As it were, the Trochites and 
the Afieria (hereafter defcribed) together. That 
