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glabrous above, puberulous (mealy) beneath except on the 

 midrib, margins revolute ; young twigs hairy ; sepals ovate- 

 acuminate ciliate, puberulous towards the tip ; corolla cylin- 

 dric-urceolate, nearly white below, shading upwards to deep 

 rose-purple ; stamens and styles somewhat exserted ; ovary 

 nearl}^ glabrous, with a few hairs upwards." 



If, as I believe, I am right in this determination, it is 

 obvious that the geographical area in which E. Stuarti can 

 occur is a very restricted one. 



Bournemouth. 



SOME CRETACEOUS FORAMINIFERA FROM 



NORTH ANTRIM. 



BY R. WEI.CH. 

 WITH WSTS AND NOTES BY JOSEPH WRIGHT, F.G.S. 



During an Easter holiday spent at Ballycastle this year with 

 some fellow members of the Belfast Naturalists' Field Club, I 

 noticed in crevices of a chalk cliff in the little glen at Ken- 

 bane Head fairly large quantities of chalk powder. This was 

 evidently the result of rain washing the weatherings of the 

 cliff face into the hollows, and I thought might yield Forami- 

 nifera, as the weathered chalk in hollow flints does. So 

 far the results have been very poor, the Foraminifera seem to 

 have been too much dissolved in the process of disintegration ; 

 but I was more fortunate in results from a small piece of chalk 

 noticed in a mass of earthy peat in a zone of the sand-dunes 

 at Whitepark, below the "Kitchen-middens" there. This I 

 found to be quite soft, so promptly boxed it, and on washing 

 it through a very fine sieve at home found the greater portion, 

 as fine as flour, disappearing in the washings and leaving a 

 residue of a few grains only. This seemed to be much finer 

 than that usually washed from hollow flint material, and was 

 quite free from the flint fragments, &c., usually associated with 



