200 THE MEDALS OF CREATION. Cuap. VI. 
then be extinct, and replaced by peculiar types of vege- 
tation. 
Fossit Frora or Ginincen. (Bd. pp. 511—514).—The 
celebrated lacustrine tertiary formation of Giningen, whose 
fossil reptiles and mammalia we shall have to notice hereafter, 
contains a rich assemblage of dicotyledonous and gymno- 
spermous ligneous vegetables, with a few ferns and grasses, 
Not only branches and leaves of a species of Vine* occur, 
but even the fruit; fossil grapes being found in these depo- 
sits; there are also many aquatic plants. A descriptive list 
of these fossils, by Professor Braun, of Carlsruhe, is given by 
Dr. Buckland. The brown-coal of this basin is in thin beds 
of but little economical importance, but so rich in the vege- 
tation of the miocene tertiary period, that a few days spent 
in collecting those treasures will amply reward the intelligent 
tourist who may visit Constance. (See Wond. p. 263.) 
The foliage of dicotyledonous trees frequently occurs in 
the Eocene marls and limestones, and in some localities in 
considerable abundance, and in beautiful preservation. Near 
Bournemouth, on the Hampshire coast, the leaves of many 
species are met with in a bed of sandy marl, between three 
and four feet thick : the vegetable substance is carbonized ; 
some of the leaves are referable to the Lawracece and Amen- 
tacece, others to the Characee ;{ a similar deposit of tertiary 
plants has been discovered near Wareham. These beds belong 
to the lower group of the Hampshire Basin.§ 
* See Knorr, Mon. des Catastrophes, pl. xxxvili. tom. i. 
+ Fossil grapes from the lignite of (iningen were exhibited by Dr. 
Daubeny at a late meeting of the Geological Society. 
+ Geol. Proc. vol. iii. p. 592. 
§ As the seed-vessels and other vegetable remains in the Isle of 
Sheppey are all of a tropical character, while those found in the 
Eocene strata of Alum Bay, Bournemouth, and Newhaven, are of a 
temperate climate, as Nerium, Platanus, &c., Prof. E. Forbes infers 
that the former were transported from distant lands by currents, and 
that the latter belong to the true flora of the country inhabited by 
the Paleotheria and other associated mammalia. 
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