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‘ON THE FOSSIL PLANTS OF THE’ TERTIARY AND SECONDARY BEDS. 401 
for the purpose, any bed worth collecting from, though I think such 
must exist at Lewisham. [ figure the crozier and venation of a very 
tharacteristic Lygodiwm from a bed of almost fcetid clay crowded with 
mains of rush, with which this Fern seems mingled in some profusion. 
Iso figure a better specimen picked up at Croydon, and part of a new 
Pieris from the same. Professor Prestwich has the same Lygodium from 
unter Hill, and also, I think, from another locality near Woolwich; so 
that it appears to be characteristic of the Woolwich beds. 
_ Studland Beds.—With Mr. Keeping’s help and other assistance we 
were able to reach a leaf bed in the Lower Bagshot at Studland, and to 
obtain a great number of specimens, nearly all of which are quite new 
to me. They are mostly dicotyledonous leaves and fruits, which will 
equire time to determine. There are no Conifers among them, and I 
wm only able to add one Fern—a Lygodiwm, very near to that of Bourne- 
mouth—to the Chrysodiwm Lanzceanum procured abundantly by me ten 
fears ago in a different bed at the same locality. 
_ Hordwell Beds—Nothing much has been added to the collection made 
y myself and Mr. Keeping last year, when the perfectly preserved 
decimens of Athrotaxis Couttsie were found, our visit this year having 
gen at too dry a season. I have, however, to add Salvinia to the flora, 
ot previously found fossil in England, and exclusively confined to the 
ocene in Austria and Switzerland. 
Barton Beds.—Dry weather made our search for plants unsuccessful 
re, except for the discovery of a new species of Pine from Highcliff, 
ite unlike those hitherto found at Bracklesham. As the Stour and 
on no longer pass along the base of Highcliff, and the sea has receded 
re, the beds are rapidly assuming an angle of repose, and becoming 
sply buried under débris, so that some of them are no longer visible 
ept by making excavations. Being accompanied by Mr. Keeping, 
10 knows the ground thoroughly, we delayed a few days to take 
mplete sections and measurements of all the beds, which we hope to 
jointly with complete lists of the fossils peculiar to each. Though 
arton series is one of the most interesting of our Eocene forma- 
the detailed bedding has not been worked out like that of the 
esham series below and the Headon series above, and the greatest 
ceptions seem to prevail as to the number of species of fossils that 
contains. 
Bournemouth Beds.—Fine series of leaves were obtained this year by 
. Keeping and myself, the most noteworthy of which are some speci- 
of Godoya, which exceed any I had previously seen. I have 
strated a new and very distinct species of Adiantum, a fragment of 
ab may be Gymnogramma, and a tufted group of Polypodium leaves, 
ch seem to be different from either of the species previously recorded. 
Lhe London Clay.—Mr. Shrubsole has kindly sent me some of the 
the fruits that have been found. I have spent much time in 
ours to electrotype these, but I cannot say that, so far, the results 
een quite satisfactory. It seems likely, however, that the solution 
to preserve them in an accessible manner will be found in this 
m. The experiments I have made would take long to recount, 
though I have found it easy to preserve them out of liquid in a 
umitormly dry atmosphere, no preparation yet discovered will save them 
exposed for a few months to damp air. I have not made any complete 
a them yet, but they promise to afford results of the highest value. 
. DD 
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