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This word is unclear in the manuscript but here, as at Notebook M2 p.23L, is perhaps to be read as ‘encrinite’. The reference is to a group of fossils thought to look like lilies. It is a crinoidal (i.e. lily-like) limestone characterised by what look like the circular ends of rods, like the circular features in Ruskin’s drawing. The word is cited in that sense from Kirby (1835).
A drawing described as ‘Fossil Encrinite’ at Works, 30.244 [n/a] is listed as being in Ruskin’s St Georges Museum being a water-colour drawing by Edward Donovan. At Notebook M2 p.23L Ruskin writes ‘Afterwards the figure on p.18 l was drawn up at it with great care. It is by much the best of the monument and its encrinite head and the worked cornice, is really fine. But on the whole it is as ill worked as anything I have seen’
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