66 Origin of the British Flora. 



railway about half a mile from Auchtertool. The plants 

 sent to me by Mr. Bennie were : — 



Thalictrum flavum (?J. Salix polaris. 



Ranunculus aquatilis. reticulata. 



Viola palustris (?). Empetrum nigrum. 



Hippuris vulgaris. Potamogeton, 2 sp. 



QEnanthe. Eleocharis palustris. 



Menyanthes trifoliata. Scirpus pauciflorus. 



Betula nana. fluitans (.^). 



Salix herbacea. Carex, 2 sp. 



Drope, Glamorgan. 



My colleague Mr. Cantrill has obtained some seeds 

 and freshwater shells from beds of peat and marl in a 

 railway cutting near Cardiff. There is nothing character- 

 istic among the fossils, though the assemblage and the 

 relations of the deposits both suggest the Neolithic period. 



DuRSLEY, Gloucester. 



The calcareous tufa used for building is full of leaves ; 

 but, as the tufa is still forming, it^ is difficult at present to 

 date the different parts of the sheet. Leaves of Hazel, 

 Elm, and Hartstongue were found by Miss M. A. Reid and 

 myself. 



Elie, Fife. 



(Bennie and Scott, * The Ancient Lake of Elie,' Proc, 

 R. Phys. Soc , Edinburgh, Vol. XH., pp. 148-170. 1893.) 



The occurrence of bones of Sheep and Rabbit, with 

 capsules of Flax and seeds of Fool's Parsley, suggests that 



