Crossword-Solution: ZAMIA 5 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 16

Many silicified trunks of coniferous trees, and the remains of plants allied to _Zamia_ and _Cycas,_ are buried in this dirt-bed, and must have become fossil on the spots where they grew.

From the facts above described we may infer, first, that those beds of the Upper Oolite, called “the Portland,” which are full of marine shells, were overspread with fluviatile mud, which became dry land, and covered by a forest, throughout a portion of the space now occupied by the south of England, the climate being such as to permit the growth of the _Zamia_ and _Cycas._ Secondly.

Fossil Plants.—Among the vegetable remains of the Lias, several species of _Zamia_ have been found at Lyme Regis, and the remains of coniferous plants at Whitby.

CHAPTER III RUINED CASTLE CREEK--ZAMIA CREEK--BIGGE'S MOUNTAIN--ALLOWANCE OF FLOUR REDUCED--NATIVES SPEAR A HORSE--CHRISTMAS RANGES--BROWN'S LAGOONS--THUNDER-STORMS--ALBINIA DOWNS--COMET CREEK--NATIVE CAMP.

The most remarkable feature in the vegetation; however, was an aborescent Zamia, with a stem from seven to eight or ten feet high, and about nine inches in diameter, and with elongated cones, not yet ripe.