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In the third specimen there are certainly eight fronds visible, 
and possibly portion of a ninth, but this example is otherwise 
particularly valuable for it shows evidence of the minute struc- 
ture of the caudex ; the venation is also remarkably well preserved. 
(PL xxiv., fig. 2.) 
The fourth individual is a similar specimen to fig. 2, in that 
there are the remains of caudex structure, with five or perhaps 
six radiating fronds, being, in the present instance, impressions of 
the upper surface (PL xxiv., fig. 4). Attention is specially directed 
to the frond on the upper left hand protruding from below the 
two fronds immediately above it, and the two on the right hand 
projecting from a still lower level. 
The fifth specimen displays a small caudex surrounded by 
seven fronds, one of them a young frond, and all again impressions 
of the upper surface. 
The sixth example consists of two small individuals contiguous 
to one another on the same piece of matrix, one of which is shown 
in PL xxiv., fig. 3. Each possesses three fronds, or portions of 
three, much shorter and wider than in any of the preceding 
specimens, and to all intents and purposes pyriform in outline. 
The remaining specimens are preserved in profile. The first 
(PL xxv., fig. 5) is a portion of a caudex, with at one end a set 
of attached fronds, four or perhaps five, forming a kind of corona; 
and a second series, six or seven in all, at the opposite end, 
detached and bent backwards out of position, but guided by the 
evidence of other specimens, there is reason to believe that, 
although detached, they are practically in situ . Immediately 
above the latter, on one side of the caudex, is a round depression, 
and half way up it on the other is a small protuberance. Amongst 
the fronds at the end first described is a small somewhat pyriform 
scale-like body. 
The second specimen seen in profile (PL xxvi., fig. 6) is a highly 
important one, in fact one of the most important of the series, 
consisting of a short portion of caudex, surmounted by a crown 
comprising six or seven fronds, and a couple of the scale-like bodies, 
already noticed in connection with PL xxiv., fig. 5. On the face 
of the crown are what I take to be leaf-scars. On the left of the 
figure one of the frond petioles is definitely attached to this scar- 
bearing face, and on the right is a petiole disappearing beneath 
the matrix, and reappearing beyond in frond form. 
The third fossil (PL xxiv., fig. 7) is part of a caudex seen partly 
in a transverse view and partly in profile, in the former case dis- 
playing portions of three fronds, radiating therefrom. On the 
right hand side of the caudex is one of the wart-like protuber- 
ances described in Pl. xxv., fig. 5. 
