Missouri botanical 
George Engelmann 
GARDEN 
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SHUMARD—NEW PALAEOZOIC FOSSILS. 113 
Eljeacrinus Kirkwoodensis, n. sp. 
Body very small, subglobose, a little longer than wide, flat¬ 
tened above and below. Basal pieces very gently concave, 
with their edges on a level with the plane of the under side. 
Radial pieces (fork pieces) reaching to the base and occupy¬ 
ing rpore than four fifths the entire length of the body, narrow 
below and widest in the middle, sides gently arched. In terra- 
dial pieces subdeltoid, very prominent towards the apex, much 
longer than wide, obtusely angulated below, acutely angulated 
above, and notched on either side a short distance below the 
summit. Pseudo-ambulacral areas extending from base to 
summit, narrow, deeply impressed; sides nearly parallel ; pore 
pieces amounting to about fifty in each field. A longitudinal 
fissure or slit extends from the central summit opening down¬ 
wards, separating the pore pieces of one side from their fel¬ 
lows of the opposite for the distance of about one fifth the 
length of the field, thence their inner edges are united in the 
median line to the base. Pseudo-ambulacral spaces lanceo¬ 
late, sloping gently from their edges to the sutures. Ovarial 
aperture” mrv minute, situated at the notches of the 
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