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A strict correspondence is also exhibited in the internal structure of the scales, or bases of leaf stalks surrounding the trunks of our fossil Cycadites, with that of the corresponding scales in the recent species.

with circles of cellular tissue, is similar to the two laminated circles near the base of a young stem of Cycas revoluta, (Pl. 59, Fig. 3.) This section was communicated to me by Mr. Brown early in 1828, to confirm the analogy which had been suggested from the external surface, between these fossils, and the recent Cycadeæ, and is figured in Geol. Trans. N. S. vol. ii. Pl. 46.