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POLYPOTHECIA. 
POLYPOTHECIA. 
The only other spongeous zoophytes which I 
shall notice here, are those which are so common 
in the flints of certain localities, particularly in 
those from the chalk pits near Edward Street, 
Brighton. These occur also very abundantly in 
the Wiltshire chalk, and in the beds of waterworn 
flints on the Downs. Miss Benett, of Norton 
House, near Warminster, (a lady to whom British 
geology is greatly indebted, and who has composed 
one of the best local catalogues of organic remains 
that has appeared in this country), has given them 
the name of Polypothecia^ and has beautifully de- 
lineated several species in the elegant and scientific 
Catalogue of the Organic Remains of the County of 
Wilts, before mentioned. Miss Benett describes 
the following, all of which I have noticed in Sus- 
sex : — 
Polypothecia obliqua. 
clavellata. 
fissa. 
latissima. 
maxima. 
palmata. 
infundibulum. 
