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ORGANIC REMAINS 
Forest. The surface bears marks of the ramifica- 
tions of the veins, probably the impressions of the 
vessels of the integument, and not those of the 
nucleus itself. 
Cca'polithus Manielli, 
This carpolithe resembles the grains or ker* 
nels of some kinds of palms, as the Areca ; hut 
the disposition of the nerves is not precisely the 
same : ” such are the remarks of M. Adolphe 
Brongniart, who considers it very probable that 
this fossil is the petrified seed-vessel of the Clathra- 
ria Lyellii. Several specimens were found among 
the vegetable remains in the block of stone, in 
which the remains of the Hylceosauvus are im- 
bedded. 
The other vegetable remains that have been 
noticed in the strata of Tilgate Forest, are too 
imperfect to admit of discrimination. It may, 
however, be observed, that no unequivocal example 
of a dicotyledonous tree has been discovered, and 
also, that the fossils above described appear to he 
peculiar to the Wealden : they are not known to 
occur in the coal measures, nor in the chalk, or 
