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‘enemite’ is the reading of the Ruskin Library Transcript T7B, though it is not clear what that is taken to mean. The word might perhaps be ‘encrinite’, meaning lily-like, despite the fact that there is only one dot in the manuscript. The reference would be to a group of fossils considered to look like lilies. It is a crinoidal limestone characterised by what look like the circular ends of rods, exactly like the circular features in Ruskin’s drawing. There is a reference in Kirby (1835). See also Works, 30.244 [n/a].
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