THE FOSSIL FLORA. 
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up, should be allowed a daily ramble, if but for half an hour, in or¬ 
der to recreate, and keep themselves in health ! From a lowly tea¬ 
kettle on a kitchen-range, sprang the wonder-working powers of the 
steam-engine :—let no one smile in derision, if T hazard the hope, 
that from my casual observation—that a tuft of grass constituted the 
ultimatum of happiness to a little dog,—one of the most terrible dis¬ 
orders—hydrophobia, may be exterminated from among us ! 
ARTICLE IT. 
THE FOSSIL FLORA OF GREAT BRITAIN. 
( Continued from page 159.^ 
It would be out of place here, to recapitulate what has been already 
said of the form and nature of this strange fossil; but we must be 
allowed to observe, that the opportunities of further examination af¬ 
forded by these several specimens, have proved that the centre was a 
continuous homogeneous cup, or dome, and not the remains of the 
arms squeezed into a single mass, as we formerly surmised it might 
be. We have, also, been furnished with the most convincing evi¬ 
dence of the leaves proceeding from the stem in all directions, thus : 
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and, although we must still oppose the great length assigned to the 
leaves by that intelligent observer, Mr. Steinhauer, of twenty feet, to 
have originated in some error of observation, it gives us pleasure 
thus further to confirm the views originally taken by him, of this 
singular tribe of plants; we have, ourselves, seen the leaves well de¬ 
fined, three feet long. 
