KARAKORAM STONES, OR SYRINGOSPH2ERIM. 
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Masses of tubes „ • 
elsewhere b Winning over it, converging on the eminences, and more or less reticulate 
or elr?^ con S er ies of tubes numerous and defined, and the interradial tubulation is open 
10Se ai «l varicose. 
Body 
Genus: STOLICZKARIA. 
minute disthi^ ^ ar ^ e ’ s y mme ^ c al, oblately spheroidal, covered with a great number of 
and which " ra nulations, which are circidar at the base, short and rather flat where free, 
exist. Tul) 316 Se ! >arated an amount of surface about equal to their breadth. No pores 
Ver S'o to tl ° IX ' mn S 8 occur 011 ^Be granulations, and tubes, with or without openings, con- 
ations are f^ 11 ' ? ,aSe . and cover the intermediate surface. The tubes opening on to the granu- 
which are . lmina ^ 10ns °f the very numerous radial series, and are small ; and the others* 
The boclv ^ e ^ 0n o to the closely-packed varicose and much contorted interradial series, 
radial scries ^ COnsas * s a yas t number of small, not very conical, but rather straight, 
tubes of W ^° se ra ther distant tubes give off minute offshoots -to the surrounding large 
I hay 16 C ^° Se tuterradial series. No ccenenchyma can be discovered. 
( tivisi 0n of e fi lame< ^ ^ ie mos t remarkable of all these fossils, those which belong to the poreless 
aneo 0 f l ■ ° 0rder ’ a tter the distinguished Palaeontologist, whose loss, whilst in the perform- 
ls dut y nnd whilst studying these very forms, is greatly and justly regretted. 
A description oe the species of the genus Syringosphceria. 
There 
forms iut 0 1S n<d: ' un o more unsatisfactory than the endeavour to separate and define rliizopodal 
five \ Ve q , s P ecie s, and the attempt would not have been made in this instance were there not 
As t^ araC ^ eiased types of the first, and one of the second genus, 
iftg the ord(/ )leSCnCe an< ^ a t )Sencc °f pores have been held to be of generic value in classify- 
ln °reover in ’ S ° ^ le P auc ity or abundance of them can enter into the specific diagnosis ; 
1° the speci a p smdace ornamentation, although of doubtful value, becomes more important 
tube series^ ^ W ^ len ^ * s a ccompanied, or not, by an open or close condition of the interradial 
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as much 0 fT e ^ rou P °t the genus Syringosphceria in which the pores are in excess, and occupy 
more h 11T) u 16 suida ce as the eminences do. This forms a specific distinction and is all the 
and the i u / demise the presence of former pores can be detected within the body, 
°f Syri nf/ 1 ^ la ^ tube reticulation is rather close. These, then, are the specific characters 
The Sd “ porom - Plate II, Eigs. 3 and 4. 
a Ver y open t. S U com pound verrucose elevations have a moderate number of pores and 
eompo Und , . re Ticulation in the interradial series ; they form, with the group possessing 
the surface SUn pl e monticules, a tolerably well-defined set, divisible into two species by 
Blate I } Ej 0 .f’ 1 °^ ddls ‘ They are Syringosphceria verrucosa and Syringosphceria monticularia; 
iio ^laria pf } ^ » Tlate III, Eigs. 1 to 4, 8 and 9. The species Syringosphceria mon- 
SUr face bein'* 10wever > subject to variation, and the monticules may be very flat, the whole 
Under the ] °, neai ^y level, or the eminences may he sharply defined. The forms classified 
granular and Cons tltute the variety aspera ; Plate II, Pigs. 6 and 7. A form with 
Plana, uunute processes with pores leads to the next genus. It is Syringosphceria 
ese are well defined and readily recognised species. 
