r 



79 ft. 



150 Dr. H. Franklin Parsons on the 



Thickness Depth 

 Blue London Clay, with septaria at 16 levels (in three 

 cases large enough to go across the well). Black 

 loamy sand and a little water at 37 feet. A few 

 pebbles and a little water at 128. Veins of sand 

 at 145, 150, and 210. SlieUs at 176 and 226. Ked- 

 dish clay at 222. A 6-inch bed of pebbles at base 

 ^Compact bed of shells and clay 



,, „ „ (whiter) 

 Mottled clays, varying in colour 

 (blue, red, brown, buff, &c.) 



■nr 1 . T. 1 Mottled clays ; no particulars kept, 

 Woolwich and i. j'^j. fiui 



-D J- -D J / but sandy toward the base 



Beading Beds, ./jj^^^ loamy green sand 



Hard grey and yellow sand 



Loamy green sand, mottled brown 

 Hard dry green loamy sand, with 



scattered shells, much broken ... 4 

 VThin bed of small black flint pebbles. 



[Greenish loamy sand 



? Thanet Beds, j Clean grey sand, full of water 



iGreen-coated flints 



Chalk, with occasional beds of flints ? 99i 



Wonersh. Chinthurst Lochje. 1887. 



Made and communicated by Messrs. Legrand & Sutcliff. 



Thickness Depth 



/Sand 14 14 



i-T Blue clay 12 26 



[Lower l-gj^^gj^ 4 28 



Greeusand. 



Hard clay and sand 20 48 



iHardclay 2 50 



118. — Habits and Habitats of Plants: some Remaeks on 

 Superficial Eesemblances between Plants of Dif- 

 ferent Affinities. 



By H. Franklin Parsons, M.D., F.G.S. 



(Kead November 20th, 1894.) 



It must often have attracted the attention of observant lovers 

 of plants that certain plants of a similar general appearance 

 differ widely in their flowers and fruit ; or, conversely, — since 

 the affinities of plants are judged of by botanists from the repro- 

 ductive rather than from the nutritive organs, — that plants of 

 different families often resemble each other in habit ; the word 

 "habit" being used by botanists to express the general appear- 

 ance and mode of growth. Such resemblances are often borne 



