4 Dr. Greville's Description of some New Mosses. 



most nearly related plant in external habit, appears to be Bar' 

 Iramia uncinata of Schwagrichen, {B. scabrida according to the 

 plate,) a species found in Guadaloupe and Martinique; but in that 

 raoss the fruit-stalk rises high above the branches, and the nerve 

 of the leaf terminates in a long subulate point. It is also near 

 some varieties of Bartramiafontcma, and may possibly not be dis- 

 tinct from that extremely variable species. It belongs to Bridel's 

 genus Philonotis, so named {a <PiXo5 et vonx) on account of the moist 

 situations in which the species are found. I do not, however, con- 

 ceive that there are sufficient grounds for separating Bartramia, as 

 Bridel has done, into two genera. 



Fig. 1. Plants, natural size. 2. Leaf from the lower part of the 

 branches. 3. One of the upper leaves. 4. Summit of a leaf. 5. Cap- 

 sule, magnified. 



ART. II. Account of some Fossil Remains fotind in the neighbour- 

 hood of Kilmarnock. By John Scouler, M.D. F.L.S. Pro- 

 fessor of Nat. Hist, in the Andersonian University of Glasgow. 



Although the remains of the fossil elephant have been found 

 in almost every country and in every condition, from that of the 

 entire carcase preserved in the eternal ice of Siberia, to the scat- 

 tered fragments of teeth and bones imbedded in diluvial soil, still 

 the occurrence of a new habitat is worth recording, especially in 

 this country, which, from its geological structure, must be always 

 meagre in those interesting relics of former worlds. 



The remains of the extinct elephant which have come under 

 my notice, were found at a quarry within half a mile of Kilmar- 

 nock. The whole surrounding country belongs to the coal forma- 

 tion, and in many situations the junction of the sandstone with the 

 carboniferous limestone is beautifully seen. The limestone con- 

 tains the usual characteristic shells and zoophytes, as Producti, 

 Encrini, &c. and the sandstone abounds in casts of fossil plants, 

 especially those which are thought to resemble the Lycopodiacese 

 and Equisetaceae of botanists. 



The quarry where these remains were found, affords a fine-grain- 

 ed sandstone, used for making tombstones and similar purposes. 

 This sandstone is in some places covered by a compact clay, which 

 aifords fine impressions of the fronds of ferns, whose genus it is 

 difficult to ascertain. 



The fossil bones with which we are more immediately interested, 

 were found about twenty-five feet below the surface of the ground, 

 and a few feet above the sandstone, in a tenacious clay of consider- 

 able thickness, and mixed with rolled and rounded stones of va- 

 rious sizes, many of them consisting of limestone, although there 

 are no limestone rocks nearer than six or seven miles. 



