The Post- Tertiary Deposits of Elie and Largo Bay. Ill 



sited on a very uneven surface. Mr J. Bennie accompanied 

 me on my second visit, and we excavated the laminated 

 sandy clay for a depth of two feet or more, and brought away 

 good samples. The sandy clay contains a few stones, to all 

 appearances unscratched, and small rounded patches of a 

 bluish-green colour, not unlike masses of decomposed trap- 

 tuff. It is quite unfossiliferous, so far as indicated by the 

 samples brought away by us. 



Mr Howie has succeeded in separating the following species 

 of mosses from the material composing the submerged forest : 



Bracliythecium rutabulum. 



,, albicans. 



Amblystegium serpens. 

 Hypnum filicinum. 



Bryum pseudo-triquetrum. 



, , pallescens. 

 Mnium hornum. 

 "Nockera complanata. 

 Thuidium tamariscinum, | ,, scorpioides. 



Rhynchostegium rusciforme. ,, crispidatum. 



,, prselongum. \ ,, giganteum. 



Hypnum nitens. 



Many of the species, which grow under widely different 

 conditions, were found drifted together in broken fragments.* 



At the southern end of Mr Brown's " Elie Transverse," or 

 Cocklemill Burn section, is marked a small patch of boulder 

 clay, appearing just above high water mark, immediately on 

 the trap-tuff at Shooter's Point. Although shown in the sec- 

 tion, the deposit is not described, and, so far as I am aware, 

 has received little notice at the hands of other observers. It 

 consists of a dark-brown, stiff, stony clay, overlaid by the 

 raised beach-bed, and resting on the tuff of Shooter's Point, 

 against which it abruptly terminates seaward. At this point 

 the bed is about 3 feet thick, and extends in a westerly 

 direction for 50 or 60 yards, or perhaps a little more, towards 

 the mouth of the Cocklemill Burn, and gradually passing 

 below high water mark. The contained stones vary in size 

 from that of a marble up to that of small boulders, and con- 

 sist of sandstone, tuff, greenstone, and quartz. They are all 

 well rounded, and beautifully striated. Mr Brown's section 

 led me to investigate this clay, and on obtaining samples I at 

 once forwarded them to Mr Bennie for examination, who 

 * Balingall's "Shores of Fife." '' The Flora of Fife and Kinross," p. 147. 



