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SECOND YARKAND MISSION. 
very diffused, the tubes being very irregular in size, shape, and position in the section. In 
some places the tubes are very close, bifurcate, as in the other instances, and are more or less 
around the circular groups. There is not much difference in the size of the tubes, which 
vary from to -^io inch. There are spots without any tube structure, and these are 
circumscribed and are the relics of old pores, passed by during the radial growth of the 
body. 
In radial sections there is in many places such an exact relation in shape between the 
tube-structure, whether reticulate or radial, and the interspaces, that it is very difficult to 
distinguish interspaces filled with clear calcite from very transparent tubes. So many 
circular spaces exist, 3 yj 0 inch in diameter, in these parts of the section, that they may be 
taken for tube sections, surrounded by a whitish and rather opaque calcite. But they are 
really interspaces, the true tubes having the translucent walls. The radial series is not, on 
the whole, very distinguishable from the interradial, but the pores exist as vacant elongate 
spaces bounded by tubes all around, and bridged over tangentially by tube reticulation. 
They are not lined by any special structure. 
The minute structure of the tubes is a finely granular substance (carbonate of lime), 
lightish red to transmitted light, and there are dark granules like minute dendrites. There 
is no trace of a ccenenchyma, and the fossilization simulates many structures, which are, 
however, readily resolved by even low powers of the microscope. 
The height of the body is l-^y inch, and the breadth 2 inches. 
Y. — The species op stoliczkaria. 
One species of this genus is amongst the collection, and its forms are readily known by 
their great size, minutely, but not sharply, granular appearance, and the absence of pores. 
Stoliczkaria granulata, Duncan. Plate II, Eig. 5 ; Plate III, Figs. 5, 6, 7. 
The body is large, spheroidal, and symmetrical ; it is covered with a vast number of 
minute eminences and interspaces. The eminences are separated by about their own breadth, 
or they may be closer, touching at their bases ; they are usually circular in outline, lov r , 
flat or rounded at the free extremity, and are about as tall as their base is broad. There are 
usually five, and the corresponding interspaces, in - ± - ( ,- inch. In some places the bases are con- 
tinuous so as to form long narrow gyrose ridges, and in others they are absent, the circular 
base existing only. Here and there are some larger ones, and minute granules are inter- 
spersed. 
Rather large tubes are on the outside and flanks of the eminences, and they open around 
and close within the circular top edge. They pass on to the spaces between the eminences, 
and are closely crowded, very bent, and form a dense reticulation, some opening there 
outwards. 
The inner or central part of the upper surface of the eminences has a few, rather wide- 
apart tubes opening there ; they are radial and small, and are readily distinguished from the 
interradial series around. Where an eminence is rudimentary, the central radial tubes 
may be seen separated by a little interspace from the dense reticulation of larger and closer 
interradial tubes. 
