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by the writer was found in Durley Chine, and between Durley Chine and 
the West Cliff lift, and thus belongs to the Bournemouth Fresh-Water 
series. 
HISTORICAL. 
Our knowledge of the Bournemouth Eocene Floras rests mainly upon the 
work of J. S. Gardner (1883-1886 , partly carried out in conjunction with 
Baron Ettingshausen (1879-1882). Gardner considered the fresh-water 
series of the Bournemouth Beds to be stored with the most rich and extensive 
flora yet brought to light from any Tertiary formation. The plants were 
found mainly in the clays, especially the light coloured clays, and were 
believed by the investigator to represent a facies chiefly Australian and 
tropical American. In their joint monograph, Gardner and Ettingshausen 
(1879, p. 3) point out that the flora is quite a distinctive one of Middle 
Bagshot age and they believe it to correspond with the subtropical American 
flora of approximately the same geological period, and suggest that the 
relationship is an indication that a land connection existed during Middle 
Bagshot time between England and America. Many generic resemblances 
were found between the English and American plants, but they also 
discovered many plants peculiar to the English strata. 
Osborne White (1917, p. 21) says: “ Usually impressions only of the 
leaves are met with, but in some cases the substance is preserved showing 
the variations in texture and even faint indications of autumnal colouring. 
The flora includes representatives of dicotyledonous forest trees, conifers, 
ferns, palms, marsh vegetation, and parasitic fungi.” Clement Reid (1898) 
and Osborne White give a resumé of Gardner’s observations on the plants 
found in the cliff-secvions, and add little or nothing to his work on the flora. 
GEOLOGICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE BEDs. 
The cliffs which comprise the Bournemouth fresh-water beds and in which 
the plant-remains described in this paper are found, extend from Canford 
Cliff to the east of Bournemouth pier. Their average height is about 100 ft. 
and they are much cut by chines. J. S. Gardner (1882) divided the 
Bagshot beds of this district into Upper, Middle, and Lower, and considered 
them to be mainly of fluviatile or estuarine origin. The rocks formerly 
described as Middle Bagshot Beds are now, in the Hampshire basin, referred 
to the Lower Bracklesham Beds (Lutetian) and the Upper Bracklesham 
Beds (Auversian) respectively. The Bournemouth fresh-water beds thus 
appear to represent the lowest local member of the Bracklesham Beds, the 
overlying marine strata being referred to the Zone of Nummulites levigatus 
(Lutetian) passing upwards into the Boscombe Sands etc., representing the 
Zone of Nummulites variolarius (Auversian). Mr. Osborne White describes 
the Bournemouth fresh-water beds as a complex of white and yellow sands, 
