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quoted, he says, “that all over the whole town of Elie, 
wherever excavations have been made to the blue clay, a 
stratum of peaty matter has been found immediately above 
it, full of branches of oak, birch, and hazel, and even many 
hazel nuts. These may,” he adds, “be contemporaneous 
with the submerged forest of Largo Bay noticed by the late 
Professor Fleming.” To this I may add, that I have been 
assured by Mr Affleck and others, that this bed of peat with 
driftwood has been exposed during late years in excavations, 
such as noted by Mr Wood. 
These details concerning the earlier lake of Elie give a 
more complete idea of the remarkable series of deposits 
which represent the events which have taken place in that 
neighbourhood, from the times and climate of the Glacial 
period to nearly the present time. Of the Arctic shell clay Dr 
Brown’s descriptions and lists of shells give an exceedingly 
good idea of the conditions that obtained on the east side of 
Scotland during the latter days of the Glacial period. Mr A. 
Bell’s papers (p. 22) on the accumulation of sand and shells 
in Largo Bay, with the copious lsts accompanying them, 
give a very accurate idea of the conditions prevailing in the 
sea of Elie during the Raised Beach period. 
I trust that the facts stated in Mr Thomas Scott’s pre- 
liminary note, and in the present paper, but especially in the 
lists of the Mollusca and Ostracoda by Mr Andrew Scott, 
give a good idea, as far as lake deposits can, of the land 
conditions of the same period. 
List of Plants from the Ancient Lake of Ehe, by Mr 
Clement Reid, F.L.S., of the Geological Survey of England. 
Ranunculus aquatilis, Linn. Rubus Ideus, Linn. 
i Flammula, Linn. Potentilla Tormentilla, Neck. 
. repens, Linn. Hydrocotyle vulgaris, Linn. 
Viola ? Atthusa Cynapium, Linn. 
Lychnis alba, Mill. Valeriana officinalis, Linn. 
»,  dturna? Sibth. Cnicus lanceolatus, Hoffm. 
Stellaria media, Cyr. Menyanthes trifoliata, Linn. 
Linum. Ajuga reptans, Linn. 
1 Note by Mr Affleck.—‘‘ The driftwood I found in Bank Street twelve years 
ago was of goodly size, one in particular being an oak tree—black and hard 
like ebony—genuine bog oak. The trees were all lying north and south,” 
