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both of the same species. The absence of these processes in Faujas 
St. Fond’s specimens may, in all probability, have proceeded from their 
removal by accident ; since their extreme delicacy must render them 
exceedingly liable to injury, and the specimen here figured is remarkable 
for its excellent state of preservation. 
The mass, Plate XII. Fig. 2, from the same mountain, is, in every 
respect, the most valuable specimen of the kind, which I have yet 
met with, or have seen described. Since, from having almost escaped 
from any injury, it not only furnishes us with the correct form of the 
zoophyte, of which it is composed, but enables us also to make out 
something respecting the labours of the little animal by which it has 
been formed. 
Fossils, evidently of the same species, are described both by Mr. 
Walch and by Faujas St. Fond. The characteristics of these fossils 
are stellated substances, projecting from a smooth ground. In the 
fossil described by the former, the stars are composed of seven striated 
rays ; but in the specimen here depicted it will be seen, that they 
are composed of six rays, standing, some less and some a little 
more, but in general about an eighth of an inch above the common 
surface ; each of these rays being cordiformed in their transverse 
section. These rays, as may be seen in the magnified represen- 
tation of them, Plate XII. Fig. 2 b, do not rise exactly vertically ; 
but, having their base more enlarged than their other parts, they 
bear somewhat of the form of a wheatsheaf. The substance of this, 
like that of the former fossils from this place, is of a fine-grained 
calcareous stone, having much of a tophaceous appearance, and 
bearing a slight yellow tinge. Faujas St. Fond considers this fossil as 
an astroites ; but Mr. Walch believes it to be merely a cast of some 
coral, the parts which formed its mould having been decomposed, and 
passed way. 
But, in the specimen here depicted, sufficient is discovered to shew, 
that Mr. Walch is, in this respect, mistaken: parts are here displayed. 
