. The testimony of the rocks; . CALAMITES CANN^FORMIS. feet in length by six feet in diameter ; and beside it therelies a smaller araucarian, also mutilated, for it wants top 166 THE TWO RECORDS, and branches, and it measures seventy feet in length by fourfeet in diameter. I saw lately, in a quarry of the Coal Meas-ures about two miles from my dwelling-house, near Edin-burgh, the stem of a plant {Lepidodendron Sternhergii)^allied to the dwarfish club mosses of our moors, consid-erably thicker than the body of a man, and which, reckon-ing on the ordinary proportions of the plant, must havebeen
. The testimony of the rocks; . CALAMITES CANN^FORMIS. feet in length by six feet in diameter ; and beside it therelies a smaller araucarian, also mutilated, for it wants top 166 THE TWO RECORDS, and branches, and it measures seventy feet in length by fourfeet in diameter. I saw lately, in a quarry of the Coal Meas-ures about two miles from my dwelling-house, near Edin-burgh, the stem of a plant {Lepidodendron Sternhergii)^allied to the dwarfish club mosses of our moors, consid-erably thicker than the body of a man, and which, reckon-ing on the ordinary proportions of the plant, must havebeen at least seventy feet in height. And of a kind ofaquatic reed (calamites), that more resembles the diminu-tive mares tail of our marshes than aught else that nowlives, remains have been found in abundance in the samecoal field, more than a foot in diameter by thirty feet inlength. Imposing, then, as are the vegetable remains ofthis portion of the iNational Museum, they would begreatly more imposing still did they more adequatel
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