88 Notices of Memoirs—Eittingshausen’s Flora of Sheppey. 
fis indicated by many of the Ferns and Palms, and by the Musaceas, 
Pandan, Cinchonacez, Loganiacee, Sapotaceze, Hbenacez, Biittneri- 
aceze, Sapindacee, etc. 
Only a part of the fossil fruits and seeds of Sheppey can be placed 
in living genera ; but with regard to the rest, forming a considerable 
proportion, it has been found impossible, notwithstanding a careful 
comparison. I therefore assume that some of the fruits and seeds 
belong to genera which no longer exist in the present Flora of the 
world. Inseveral of these extinct genera, however, I recognize their 
affinity with living genera, or at least determine the family to which 
they belong. I have expressed this in the name of the genus. But 
with many even that was impossible, and these I have placed in the 
mean time under the provisional name Carpolithes. It is an important 
fact that the number of such extinct forms is relatively much larger 
than it is in any of the already known Miocene Floras. I have also 
discovered fruits, but chiefly leaves, belonging to many of the genera 
of the Sheppey Flora in the Fossil Floras of Bournemouth and Alum 
Bay in the collections of the British Museum, and that of Mr. John 
Starkie Gardner, indicating that in age these are not farremoved. It 
is well known that the Sheppey Flora preceded the other two. The 
genera which, I feel sure, are common to Sheppey and Bournemouth 
are: Spheria, Sequoia, Cyperites, Smilax, Sabal, Iriartea, Aronium, 
Quercus, Juglans, Liquidambar, Proteoides, Laurus, Nyssa, Cinchoni- 
dium, Apocynophyllum, Sapotacites, Diospyros, Magnolia, Acer Sapin- 
dus, Cupania, Eugenia, Eucalyptus, Metrosideros, and Bauhinia. 
I believe that even some species of these genera are the same in 
both Floras. It is surely probable that the fruitsand seeds of Sheppey 
were related to the leaves found at Bournemouth and Alum Bay ; and 
it would be, therefore, undesirable always to propose separate specific 
names for the related fossils found in these different localities. 
Among the plaut-fossils of Bournemouth and Alum Bay I also 
found many leaves which I could not class with existing genera. 
There is probability that these partially correspond with the extinct 
fruit- and seed-genera of Sheppey- 
Before I enumerate the genera and species of the Fossil Flora of 
Sheppey, I have to remark as follows :— 
Amongst the Sheppey fossils are now and then found fragments of 
the basis of the leaf of a Palm, probably of Sabal major. On such a 
fragment I found the apothecia of a Spheria. Of the Gymnosperme 
of Sheppey there were tound fruits and seeds of the Sequoia Bower- 
bankit, also fragments of twigs. The seeds of the Cupressinee and 
Abietinee had lost their wing-like expansions, which shows that the 
fruits and seeds of Sheppey were carried some distance in water, con- 
sequently their delicate membranous wings were injured and broken 
off by rubbing. There are therefore no perfect winged fruits and 
seeds to be found. In fact, even the firmer wings of the Acer-fruit 
have been entirely lost, and it is impossible to determine the species 
of the Acer-nucules, which remains. 
The appearance of the Salisburia seeds is interesting. They are 
very remarkable for their sharp, prominent edge. ‘The easily- 
