L. J. Wills —Fossiliferous Keuper at Bromsgrove. 29 
1. Waterstones: micaceous laminated sandstones and beds of marl. 
2. Building-stone: thick non-micaceous sandstones. 
3. Basement beds: sandstones, conglomerates, and calcareous sand- 
stones. 
Although Hull dealt with the whole of the Midland counties, he 
noticed no plants from the Lower Keuper except those from Worcester- 
shire, which had been described by Murchison and Strickland, and 
none of the newer Survey Memoirs has supplied any further records. 
His memoir contains a yaluable list of fossils, to which only a few 
have since been added. 
With the exception of Owen’s! and of Miall’s* descriptions of the 
Labyrinthodont remains in the Warwick Museum, and of Huxley’s 
note on Hyperodapedon* and a few other descriptive papers, including 
those in the recent British Association Reports,‘ nothing has since 
been written about the Lower Keuper of these counties. 
I purpose, at present, to deal more especially with the Lower 
Keuper of Bromsgrove. But since the beds here are rich in plant 
remains, it may be of interest to note those plants that have been 
recorded from the Upper Keuper. In 1855 W.5S. Symonds ° described 
the Pendock Beds, and mentions plants which were identified as 
belonging to either Calamites arenaceus or Equisetites columnaris, but 
which were more probably “gwisetites arenaceus. In the following 
year J. Plant® noticed guwisetum from Leicester, while vegetable 
remains, including ‘‘ Voltzia in fructification,” Calamates, and Carpolithes, 
were recorded by P. B. Brodie from Shrewley and Rowington,’ to 
which J. Phillips added Walchia hypnoides.s heir specimens, in so 
far as they still exist, are in tuo poor a state of preservation to allow 
of re-identification. [I have added one new locality, south-east of 
Green Lane Farm, Callow Hill, in Worcestershire, where indeterminable 
plant remains have been found associated with Hstheria. The above 
records point to the scarcity of the flora and illustrate the doubtful 
nature of many of these identifications. 
The beds at Bromsgrove in which I have found fossils are the 
Waterstones and upper part of the Building Stone of Hull’s classi- 
fication, which are extensively quarried on the hill about a mile to 
the south-west of Bromsgrove, known as Rock Hill and Hill Top. 
The four quarries belong alternately from south to north to 
Mr. Willcox and Mr. Griffin, to both of whom I am much indebted 
for assistance. The beds show alternations of sandstone and shales, and 
a band of marl conglomerate, the whole dipping at a low angle to the 
south. ‘Ihe shales thicken and thin out in a most extraordinary way, 
which makes any measurements and comparisons of the beds in the 
1 R. Owen: Trans. Geol. Soc., ser. 1, vol. vi (1842), p.503; and Paleontology, 
2nd ed. (Edinburgh, 1861), p. 278. 
2 L. C. Miall: Q.J.G.S., vol. xxx (1874), p. 417. 
i. Hi. Huxley: Q.J.G.S., vol. xxv (1869), p- 1388. 
+ Reports of Trias Committee of British Association, 1903, 1904, 1905, 1906. 
5 W. 5S. Symonds: Q.J.G.S., vol. xi (1855), p. 450. 
2° J. Plant: Q.J:G.8.,-vol- xii (1856), p. 373. 
7P. B. Brodie: Q.J.G.S., vol. xii (1856), p. 374; vol. xliii (1887), p. 540 
vol. xlix (1893), p. 171. 
8 J. Phillips: ‘‘ Geology of Oxford and Thames Valley,” p. 97; Oxford, 1871. 
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