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FOOTNOTES:
[A] For drawings of the anemone see S. B. 87, E. B. 11, and P. F. 66.
[B] See Dr. Hooker “On the Vegetation of the Carboniferous Period,”
_Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, &c._, vol. ii.