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the lacustrine deposit of Elie is not older than the Neolithic 

 period. The flowering plants are : — 



Ranunculus aquatilis. 

 Flammula. 



repens. 



Viola (?). 

 Lychnis alba. 



diurna (?). 



Stellaria media. 

 Li num. 

 Rubus Idaius. 

 Potentilla Tormentilla. 

 Hydrocotyle vulgaris. 

 iEthusa Cynapium. 



Valeriana ofificinalis. 

 Cnicus lanceolatus. 

 Menyanthes trifoliata. 

 Ajuga reptans. 

 Atriplex patula. 

 Polygonum Persicaria. 

 Corylus Avellana. 

 Iris Pseudacorus. 

 Potamogeton. 

 Carex, several species, 

 Phragmites (?). 

 Chara. 



Endsleigh Street, London. 



(Hicks, ' On the Discovery of Mammoth and other 

 Remains in Endsleigh Street . . . .' Quart. Joum. Geol. 

 Soc, Vol. XLVIIL, pp. 453-468. 1892.) 



A clayey loam containing bones of Mammoth and 

 numerous seeds, fills the lower part of a hollow eroded 

 in the London Clay. From its position at the base of 

 the Drift, and its resemblance to other deposits in the 

 neighbourhood of London, it is most probably Interglacial, 

 though newer than the boulder-clay of Middlesex. 



Rumex obtusifolius. 

 Luzula (?) maxima (?). 

 Potamogeton obtusifolius. 



Ranunculus aquatilis. 

 sceleratus. 



repens. 



Stellaria media. 



Geranium. 



Potentilla Tormentilla. 



Hippuris vulgaris. 



Myriophyllum spicatum. 



Polygonum aviculare. 



Persicaria. 



crispus. 



Zannichellia palustris. 

 Eleocharis palustris. 

 Carex dioica. 



2 sp. 



Chara. 



Fahrenkrug in Holstein. 



(Weber, ' Ueber die diluviale Flora von Fahrenkrug in 

 Holstein,' Engler's Bot. Jahrb., Beiblatt 43. 1893.) 



