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days the Foul Burn, which runs into the sea only a few 
hundred yards farther to the west. At that time it was not 
foul but sweet, and sewerage was unknown in the land. The 
wood grit would likely long float and be driven about by 
waves and tides for many years ere it became water-logged 
and was buried up by the falling sand. The beetle remains 
would likely, as soon as they came into the sea, be limed on 
some muddy layer and be preserved from attrition, the only 
way they could perish, as by their nature they are proof to 
decay by the agencies that rot wood or dissolve shells. 
The following is a list of the seeds kindly furnished by Mr 
Clement Reid, of the Geological Survey of England:— 
Ranunculus Flammula, Linn. Taraxacum officinale, Web. 
i; repens, Linn, Stachys palustris, Linn. 
Viola sp. Ajuga reptans, Linn. 
Lychnis diurna? Sibth. Atriplex patula, Linn. 
Stellaria media, Cyr. Rumex sp. 
Montia fontana, Linn. Mercurialis perennis, Linn, 
Rubus Ideus, Linn. Alnus glutinosa, Linn. 
Sambucus nigra, Linn. Carex sp. 
The beetles are as yet undetermined. They are numerous 
and various, and would, I feel certain, prove a pleasing and 
instructive study to any entomologist who would undertake 
their examination. | 
3. Carboniferous Lycopod spores. These, though not so 
numerous as the other relics of the sea, were still in notable 
numbers, and, as they were the most bizarre of all, arrested 
attention in like degree. Besides, the ways and means 
by which they had come to Fillyside suggested imaginations 
far more romantic than any of the others, and I had infinite 
pleasure in realising them. They were in great variety and 
conditions, and had evidently suffered much attrition in 
their life in death during the Boulder Drift and Raised Beach 
periods. The kinds which had suffered most from tear and 
wear were the zonales—the stumps of the fringe of hairs 
only remaining, like headless baby pins in a liliputian button- 
shape pin-cushion. Many of them were 7'riletes, with the 
triradiate ridge clearly seen on the under side of the spore; 
some were Lagenicule, with pustules still strongly marked. 
The immediate source of the spores was, I concluded, the 
