52 PETRIFACTIONS AND THEIR TEACHINGS. CHAP I. 



palms have been collected from the tertiary strata of various 

 parts of the Continent, but the first example discovered in 

 England was obtained a few months since, from the fresh- 

 water tertiary deposits at White- Cliff Bay, in the Isle of 

 Wight, by Mr. Fowlstone, of Hyde. 1 



LIGN. 17. PALM-LEAF FROM EOCENE STRATA. ISLE OF WIGHT. 

 Palmacites Lamanonis. (\nat. size.) 



Palm-stems. Cases D. and E. The lower shelves of Case 

 E, beneath the fossil fruits from Sheppey, contain many spe- 

 cime^s of silicified stems of palms ; and on the top of Case 

 Z>, there are several very large petrified trunks from Antigua, 

 and from the Eocene deposits of India. Some of these fossils re- 

 tain vestiges of the air roots which proceed from the lower part 



1 See "Geological Excursions round the Isle of Wight," &c., 2d edit. 

 1851, p. 431. 



