NOTES, 
fyc. 
Fossil Seed-vessels of various kinds from the London Clay, Isle of 
Sheppey, are figured and described by Dr. James Parsons, in the 
Phil. Trans. vol. l. part i. p. 396, and by Parkinson in his Organic 
Remains , vol. i. tab. 6 and 7. 
Wood, —-Remains of Dicotyledonous Plants are found in the Lias, 
and in all the super strata. Among those the most interesting to the 
collector, are—the Trunks of Trees found in the Oolite of the Isle of 
Portland—the specimens in the Green Sand of the Blackdown Pits, 
Devonshire—the Bovey Coal of Bovey Tracey, Devonshire, (Org . 
Rem. vol. I. tab. 1, fig. 3)—and another kind found in the London 
Clay, generally perforated by Fistulana personata, (Org, Rem, vol. 
i. tab. 9, fig. 9). Specimens from the last-named deposit are found 
on the Essex Coast; they are jet black, silicious, and retain the cha¬ 
racter of recent wood. (Org. Rem. vol. i. tab. 2, fig. 6). The 
remains of the Submarine Forest of our Eastern Coast are found in 
the greatest perfection on the beach at Palling, in Norfolk; these are 
bouldered fragments strongly impregnated with the oxyde of iron, 
the pores and fibres remaining perfect. 
jFJtites, or Eagle Stones.— In the Diluvial Gravel of Norfolk, and 
other counties, are found spherical flints, about one inch in diameter, 
having a nucleus of Alcyonitic origin; this nucleus is sometimes loose, 
the pebble is then denominated an Eagle Stone.— Org. Rem. vol. II. 
tab. 12, fig. 5. 
St. Cuthbert’s Beads. —Single joints of the vertebral column of the 
Encrinite (Apiocrinites rotundus) pass under this name.—Vide Scott’s 
Marmion , Canto ii. stanza 16, and Org. Rem. vol, ii, tab, 13. 
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