168 THE BATH OOLITE PERIOD. CHAP. 



zone, which has another analogue in the Brandsby beds of York- 

 shire. The fossils of the ' Stonesfield slate'' furnish on the whole 

 so large and instructive a series of life-form s, and were accumulated 

 under so much of local peculiarity, as to require a separate enumeration. 

 Mr. Buckman in his Geology of Cheltenham gives a considerable 

 number of the Eyeford fossils. In 1855, I made a catalogue of the 

 vegetable and animal remains at Stonesfield 8 ; in 1 860, Mr. J. 

 "Whiteaves, a most successful explorer of the Oxford district*, added 

 twenty-eight species of mollusca. Many of the fossils of these 

 remarkable beds are identical with those of higher zones in the 

 Great oolite, and may be known by the figures of Morris and Lycett 

 in the Palaeontographical Society's Memoirs. 



The following Catalogue represents the state of my knowledge 

 of the flora and fauna of Stonesfield, meaning by this the flaggy 

 and sandy series exclusively. Some determinations by Professor 

 Buckman and the Ordnance Geological Survey have been added 

 for localities other than Stonesfield. 



FOSSILS OF THE STONESFIELD BEDS. 



PLANTS. 



Alga. 



Halymenites ramulosus. Br. Stonesfield. 

 Filices. 



Cyclopteris latifolia. Phil. Eyeford. . 



Glossopteris longifolius u . Buck. Eyeford. 

 Hymenopteris macrophylla. Br. Stonesfield. 

 Pecopteris approximata. n.s. Phil. Stonesfield. 

 diversa. n.s. Phil. Stonesfield. 

 incisa. n.s. Phil. Stonesfield. 

 Sphaenopteris cysteoides. L. and H. Stonesfield. 



plumosa. n. s. Phil. Stonesfield. 



Tseniopteris latifolia. Br. Stonesfield. 



,, angustata. n. s. Phil. Stonesfield. 

 scitaminese-folia. Stern. Stonesfield. 

 Monocotyledone<s. 



Aroides Stutterdi. Carr. Sfconesfield. 



The following petiolate, lanceolate leaves are referred by Mr. Buckman to the 

 Monocotyledonous division of plants. They may perhaps be Cycads allied 

 to the Mexican genus Dion : 

 Bensonia ovata. Buck. Sevenhampton. 

 Lilia lanceolata. Buck. Eyeford. 



s Oxford Essays. * Reports of the British Association, 1860, p. 104. 



u Figured by Buckman, Geol. of Cheltenham, Plate I. fig. i, as Salicites. 



