CHAPTER X. 



ORGANIC REMAINS OF THE WEALDEN FOSSIL VEGETABLES ENDO- 



GENITES EROSA CYCAHEOUS PLANTS CLATHRARIA LYELLII FOSSIL 



SHELLS — TTNIO VALDENSIS FOSSIL CYPRIDES — FOSSIL FISHES. 



Fossils of the Wealden. — The Wealclen strata 

 of the Isle of Wight have afforded examples of the 

 most characteristic organic remains that have been 

 discovered in this formation in other parts of Eng- 

 land. They have yielded five or more genera of 

 terrestrial plants ; of which one belongs to the 

 Pines, several to the Cycadeas, and two or three 

 to the Ferns : several species of river-shells, of the 

 genera Unio, Paludina, Potamides, Cyclas, &c. ; 

 and of the small crustaceans, the C[iprides. Fishes 

 allied to the Bony-pike and the Sharks occur, 

 and bones of seven or eight species of terrestrial 

 saurian reptiles, and of two or three genera of 

 Chelonians, 



Fossil vegetables. — Our description of the 

 fossil forest of Brook Point entered so fully into 

 the character of the coniferous trees of the 

 Wealden, that it is unnecessary to enlarge upon 



