12 A MIOCENE LOCALITIES. 



A summary of the species of plants and animals belonging to 

 (Eningen is given in the following Tables : 



Number of Species of Plants discovered at CEningen up to 1865'*. 



Cryptogamia 43 



Gymnospermia 12 



Monocotyledones 57 



Apetala 86 



Polypetala . 169 



Gamopetala 66 



Not classified 42 



Number of Species of Animals discovered at (Eningen up to 1 865 . 



Mollusca 4 



Crustacea 7 



Spiders and Mites 29 



Insects 826 



Fishes 32 



Reptiles 12 



Birds 6(?) 



Mammals 6 



Of the plants of GEuingen, 143 species have been also found 

 in the Swiss Miocene ; but the majority are only known from 

 CEningen itself. Most of them were no doubt at that time 

 distributed over Switzerland, only they have not been preserved. 

 It is obvious that the remains of delicately constructed insects 

 and spiders must have had favourable circumstances for their 

 preservation in this locality. A glimpse into the wonderful 

 world of the Miocene period is afforded in the rich carpet of 



* In the ' Tertiary Flora of Switzerland,' 46o species have been described 

 from (Eniugen by Prof. Ileer, who has since received 10 new species, namely 

 Sinilax Taryionii, Gaud., Sparganium altenians, Myrica Studeri, Ileer, Cyp- 

 selites Parlutorii and pulchcllus, Biynonia Damans, Ileer, Myrsine gradUs, 

 Rhits hydropMla, Uug 1 ., sp., Mi/rtus ccninyensis, and Cratccyus Buchiana, of 

 which are also ue\v to the S\viss flora, so that the number of specks in the 

 latter is raised to 9:29. 



