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 TAB. CCCCXXX.

FOUND in the Challc at the Sand-pits at Blackheath Hill, by Charles Stokes, Esq. in 1811. It is in flat reticulated entangled masses, the main stems compressed, forming various angles, and the shoots and branches nearly at right angles, rounded, and bluntly ended. The Chalk sometimes adhere* to the roughish or more wrinkled surface of the main branches. The whole plant is of a dull foxy brown colour.

TAB. CCCCXXX I. 1.

MAIN stems irregularly angular, brittle, bark or outside breaking frequently at right angles, giving it a bugle necklace form; outside dull brown; inside w^hite, cottony, tough; branches long, continuous, undulating. Found in the Minies in the neighbourhood of Keswick by Mr. Crosthwaite, and sent in July, 1806, by the Rev. J. Harriman. No fruit discoverable.

FOUND three feet under ground at Reading in Berks. Stems long, round, nearly uniform in thickness; smaller branches placed in bundles, lighter coloured than the larger ones; the smallest lighter still, with a silky lustre. The whole crowded; little or no pith, and no fruit discoverable.

3.

CONSISTS of very fine rounded threads, branching in all directions, mostly serpentine, extremely attenuated and hair-like, matted so as to resemble wool or cotton, or tufted hair; brown in texture, brittle, and woody, bark-like. Mr. Martin found this in large masses in some of the deepest Mines in Derbyshire, and sent it from Buxton. I name it in respectful commemoration of the assiduous Author of " Outlines of the Extraneous Fossils," &c. TAB. CCCCXXXII.

The mouse-skin cask Byssus. Dillenius Tab. 1 . 'Fig. A.

I COULD not resist saying something more about my Tab. 387, Fig. 3, and recanting something of what I have said