246 



REPORT 1886. 



p. elongatus, Endl. 'Synop. Conif.' p. 286; Strobilites, Lind. and 

 Hutton, ' Foss. Flora,' vol. ii; p. 23, pi. xxix. 



P. LeckenUji, Carr. Pinites, ' Geol. Mag.' vol. vi. p. 2, pi. i. figs. 1-5, 

 Shanklin. 



Ahietites Benstedi, Goepp. Abies, Mant. ' Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc' 

 vol. ii. p. 51, pi. ii. fig. 2, 1846. Pinites, Carr. ' Journ. Bot.' Jan. 1867 ; 

 ' Geol. Mag.' vol. iii. p. 541 ; Abietites, Goepp. ' Foss. Conif.' p. 207. 



A. dblongus, Goepp. Abies oblonga, Lind. and Hutt. vol. ii. p. 155, 

 pi. cxxxvii. Supposed to be from Greensand, near Lyme Regis ; described 

 by a misprint as from ' Dresent,' instead of 'present' shore. Elate, 

 Unger, ' Syn.' p. 199. Abietites, Goepp. ' Foss. Conif.' p. 207. Pinites, 

 Endl. ' Synop. Conif.' p. 283; Carr. 'Geol. Mag.' vol. iii. p. 541. 

 (Professor Williamson is describing a magnificent specimen of this or oxi 

 allied form.) 



Pinites gracilis, Carr. Gault, Folkestone, ' Geol. Mag.' vol. vi. p. 2, 

 pi. i. fig. 9. 



P. hexagonus, Carr. id.' vol. viii. p. 540, pi. xv. 

 Sequoiites Gardneri, Carr. id. vol. vi. p. 2, pi. i. 



Sequoiites ovalis, Carr. 

 ' -f ' ' ''^ • -"'■ id. vol. viii. p. 542. 



Sequoiites Woodwardii, 

 Carr. id. vol. iii. p. 544, pi. 

 xxi. figs. 11-16, Blackdown. 

 We have now dealt with 

 the more highly organised of 

 ourMesozoic plants, and pass 

 on to those of the Eocene. 



Among the most inter- 

 esting of recent discoveries 

 is that of plant- remains in 

 ^^ a small sand-pit at Colden 

 Common, between Bishop- 

 stoke and Winchester, the 

 first locality in the Hamp- 

 shire basin that has yielded 

 any of Woolwich and Read- 

 ing age. This was first 

 commnnicated to us by Mr. 

 Whitaker, who thought the 

 leaves might prove to be of 

 London Clay age. They 



^ , „ ^. ^ ^ , , o ,,- , ^^^y ^ fact, actually included 



Fig. 1. — Section at Uolden Common, near \\ inchester. • -j. i i_ t -i j 



, , ^, „ , .s ^ ' m its basement bed, and 



London Clay (3 feet).— a. Very saudy clay, mottled yellowish -it • 1 1 j z* 



and pale drab. mmgled With casts of 



fiearfm^Mj (5 feet).-6. Very plastic clay, of pale drab marine shells and sharks' 

 colour, c. Perruginous sand with sea shells,- occasional peb- , , uj-i, iii ir 



bles, enclosing rolled fragments of pale drab clay with fossil teeth, but the blocks OI 

 leaves, d. Imperfectly stratified grey loamy sand. ^^^^ ^j^}^ j^^^^g ^^^ derived, 



though other unfossiliferoas clay-seams are in situ. If not of London 

 Clay age, however, they are much nearer to it than the Reading flora, 



' Far larger specimens than that originally described, one 8 inches long by 

 1| inch in diameter, have since been found. 



2 Cardium Laytoni, Panopoea, Cytlwrea, Pccten, Tliracia f Trigonocoelia, Naiica ? 

 Sharks' teeth. 



