The Medals of Creation, Volumes 1 and 2 / First Lessons in Geology and the Study of Organic Remains

by Gideon Algernon Mantell

Lign. 43.

Fig.	1.—	Sphenophyllum Schlotheimii; nat.
	2.—	Sphenophyllum erosum.

Coal-Shale.

Trigonocarpum. [Lign. 44. figs. 3. 4.]—These fruits, which resemble those of certain Palms, are often met with in the coal-mines of Leicestershire and Yorkshire; frequently occurring in groups of thirty or forty, as if they were the scattered seeds of a raceme of a Palm: they are referred to the genus Nœggerathia, a tree of the carboniferous formation allied to the Palms.

FOSSIL FRUITS.

A figure of a fossil fruit from the Oolite—Carpolithes Bucklandi, is introduced in [Lign. 44, fig. 2], and will be described hereafter.