Miscellanies. 419 
The fossil stratum referred to, has afforded the author, only from 
the specimens sent him on four or five occasions by Judge Tait, 
more than two hundred and filty species, out of which seven are not 
referable to any known genus, and two hundred and ten species 
(besides nine species of Polypi) are not referable to any known spe- 
cies : and “ it is an extraordinary fact, that among the whole of them 
there cannot be, wish absolute certainty, a single species found to have 
its analogue in a living species. Some of the genera, are unknown 
on our coast; some are found only in a fossil state in Europe ;” and 
the author doubts whether a single species is strictly analogous to those 
of the Eocene period of. Europe, but nevertheless infers the identity 
of its epoch with that formation from the number of turrited shells 
and similar genera. Besides the shells there were found among 
the sand, shark’s teeth of several different forms, part of a claw of a 
species of Cancer, some fragments of a fossil similar to what Bran- 
der figures under the name of Palatium piscium, and the tooth, spine 
and vertebre of fish. 
Annexed, the reader will perceive is the list of the new fossil shells 
of this remarkable locality. 
eee POLYPI. 
mity MILLEPORADS. 
Louse: Bouéi. 
uclosii. 
Orbitolites | Hee 
iscoidea. 
Fami.y Y actiben: 
Turbinolia Maclurii. 
tokesii. 
Goldfussii. 
ee, 
crass’ ANNULATA. 
AmILy Dorsatia. 
Siliquaria Magee 
y Matpanta. 
Dentalium skeroatam, 
Gaty Serves. 
Spirorbis tubanella. 
rnata. 
Famity TUBICOLARIA. ~ 
Teredo simplex. 
MILY Sovenacra. 
Salecirese ae 
YARIA. 
Anatina Claitio¢nbtide. 
Famity Macrracea. 
Mactra dentata. 
Grayi. 
ygmea. 
-Famity Corsuea. ° 
Corbula Alabamiensis. 
Murchisonii. 
ib 
compressa 
Famity Lirnopaeéa. 
ne Sage petioles 
NyMPHACEA. 
Egeria nian 
inf 
veneriformis. 
