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194 THE MAGIC OF JEWELS AND CHARMS
sharp and clearly defined as though the work of an engraver or gem-cutter.78 These fossils are types of encrinites.
The sections of the stem-like fossils called entrochus by the older writers have been named St. Cuthbert's beads in
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later times, while the fossil called lapis Judaicus has
borne the name of "stone-lily," because in form it resembles the lily.
Ages ago the stem and flower-like head united consti-
"Ibid., p. 300; lib. ii, cap. cxlviii.
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