84 FOSSILS OF BRACKLESHAM BAY AND SELSEY. 
PLANT. 
British localities. Foreign localities. 
Lycoropites squamatus, R. 4. Tab. IX. f. 1. Sheppy. Paris. 
Brong. Env. de Paris, t. xi. f. 3. Morris, 12. 
Cucumites vAriABILis, R. 3. Tab. IX. f. 2. Sheppy. 
Bow. Fos. Fr. t. 13. f. 1, 84. Morris, 6. 
Pinites Dixoni, R. 2. Tab. IX. f. 3 & 4. 
Bowerbank. Morris, 18. 
The subjoined letter I have received from my friend Mr. Bowerbank, re- 
specting the Fir-cones. 
“My Dear Sir,—The following are the characters I have adopted for the Cones :— 
« PINITES DIXONI. 
“Sp. Char. Cone about three and a half diameters long. Scales incrassate towards the apex. 
Apex recurved and terminating in a rhomboidal, obtusely spinous umbo, which is elongated at 
right angles to the axis of the cone. 
“The most perfect of your two specimens affords the best proportional characters of the three, 
but in my one, the structural characters are most distinct. From a careful comparison of these 
two, there can be no reasonable doubt of their being the same species. In the third specimen, 
the large fragment of a cone, in your possession, there is at the first sight an appearance as if 
it were a different species. The scales appear broader, and the incrassation of the apex extends 
laterally, so as to give the scale the appearance of terminating in a semilunar ridge, so as to 
cause them to approximate in their structure to those of Pinus anthracina, fig. 164, vol. in. of 
Lindley and Hutton’s ‘ Fossil Flora of Great Britain’ ; but I feel convinced, from a careful m- 
spection and comparison with the more perfect specimens, that these apparent differences of 
character are due solely to the more decomposed and compressed condition of the specimen ; 
and I am the more strongly confirmed in this belief, from finding the same lateral extension of 
the apex in one or two of the most compressed of the scales of my own specimen ; and moreover, 
although they are not very apparent, yet there are the remains of the terminal umbones to be 
found on two or three of the scales of this large fragment of a cone. The difference in size from 
your more perfect specimen is not greater than that which occurs between the larger and 
smaller specimens of the cones of Pinus Russelliana in the collection of the Linnean Society, 
and to which species P. Divoni appears to be closely allied. 
“cc S ? 
“3 Highbury Grove, Jan. 6th, 1847.” vy Seis 
I possess a large rolled specimen of Palm Wood, of a dark colour, resembling 
in structure the stem of the cocoa-nut, found in Bracklesham Bay*. The 
remains of Dicotyledonous and Coniferous Wood are common. 
* See description of Palms. 
