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A fossil plant resembling a petrified flower.
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He considers this Antholite from the coal to be "the spike of a very highly organised flowering plant in full flower,", p. 20.
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Göppert , in his Permian Flora , figures an Antholite (pl. xxi., fig. 1-3), which he considers to be teh inflorescence of Nöggerathia, a genus placed by him among the monocotyledons; while Ettingshausen, on the other hand, believes teh forms he found in the Coal-Measures at Stradonitz to be the fruits of Calamites ("Steinkohlenflora Stradonitz," pl. v. fig. 1-3).
It is not, as you have perhaps surmised, a work of sculpture, but it is an antholite, or fossil blossom, brought, with others of the same kind, from the world to which I am native.
A fibrous form of amphibole.
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Antholite is fibrous or asbestiform, grey to brown; […] Cummingtonite is much like antholite, gey to brown; fibrous;
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In thin section, the radiated variety of amphibole, antholite ( possibly true anthophyllite ) , predominates in closely matted groups, made up of colorless to brownish ( ochreous ) fibres, which polarize strongly between the crossed nicols.
It seems to correspond most nearly in chemical composition to some of the fibrous forms of monoclinic amphibole, e.g. antholite or kuppferite.
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Antholite is found in irregular bundles of strong fibres associated with altered enstatite, calcite, dolomite etc