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FOSSIL VEGETABLES 
OVCAOITKS IJRONGNIARTI. 
Cycadites Brongniarti In sandstone : Tilgate 
beds. This beautiful and rare plant, for the de- 
lineation of which I am indebted to Mr. William 
Constable, who discovered it in sandstone at 
Heaver’s Wood Common, three miles south of 
Riegate, is more nearly related to the C. tenuicaulis 
of the Cornhrash^ than to any other fossil with which 
I have compared it. It affords me the highest 
gratification to have this opportunity of offering 
my humble tribute of respect to that distinguished 
botanist, M. Adolphe Brongniart, whose philo- 
sophical and most interesting researches on the 
fossil flora of our planet, have already produced 
such important results ; and the continuation of 
whose labours promises to effect in the botany, 
