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I’ALMS. 
A noble example of this family is fig¬ 
ured in Lindley and Hutton’s Fossil Flora, 
plate 203, being the representation of a 
fossil tree found in the Bensham Coal seam 
in the Jarrow colliery, and which happening 
to lie on the direction of the gallery, was 
exposed throughout its whole length. The 
trunk is thirty-nine feet Iona:, before its 
division into branches, and three feet across 
Avithin the bark. 
V. The fifth great division, plants with 
flowers and one-lobed seeds, comprises palms 
and grasses. The latter are absent from the 
fossil flora save some aquatic kinds, of which 
leaves and stems are present in the tertiary 
and greensand deposits. 
The Palms with their striking aspect, his¬ 
torical associations, and economical uses to 
man, furnish matter for interesting research. 
They range in modern geography from the 
South of France and Spain to the Equator, 
become fruit-bearing trees on the southern 
shores of the Mediterranean, and attain their 
greatest developement in the forests of South 
America, where the Cucurito throws its 
