298 R. F. Totnes— Corals of Crkltley mil. 



three which are found in the Inferior Oolite of the Grloucestershire 

 Hills, and it rests on the Pisolite or Pea-grit. 



I can hardly expect that the following list comprehends anything 

 like all the species which occur at Crickley : most likely it does not 

 even include all those which have been collected, and are known ; 

 but it is more ample than any one which has yet been published, 

 and may serve as a basis to which additions and corrections may 

 from time to time be made. All the specimens to which I shall refer 

 were collected by the Eev. P. B. Brodie, F.G.S., Mr. J. W. Kirshaw, 

 F.G.S., and myself, during a very few visits made by us to that 

 locality. Many of the species were found in situ ; but some of them, 

 though of unquestionable authenticity as far as the locality is con- 

 cerned, cannot be placed stratigraphically, having been found 

 amongst the weathered debris on the slopes beneath the section. 

 All are referable to two families, the AstraidcB and the Fungidce. 



Family Astreid^. 

 MoNTLTVALTiA HoLLi, Duncan, Supp. Brit. Foss. Cor., pt. iii. p. 16, 



pi. 1, fig. 5-6. 

 Two examples only of this species have been taken, directly from 

 the Coral-bed by myself, when they were associated with the follow- 

 ing species, Montlivaltia PainswicM. Both of them exhibit the 

 calicular peculiarities mentioned by Prof. Duncan, but externally they 

 differ not only from his figure, but also from each other. They are 

 attached to a worn piece of a Thamnastrcea, and are very crooked 

 and rugose. They have much the appearance of springing from one 

 root, and their general aspect is very suggestive of some species 

 of Thecosmilia. In both specimens the margins of the septa are 

 entire and quite smooth. 

 Montlivaltia Painswicki, Duncan, Supp. Brit. Foss. Corals, pt. 3, 



p. 17, pi. 2, fig. 13. 

 Of this species several examples were found associated with the 

 foregoing in the Coral-bed, and all of them possess the characters 

 attributed to this species by Prof. Duncan. They vary a little, chiefly 

 in not being equally compressed, but in every instance the calice is 

 more or less irregularly ovoid, with a slight tendency towards a 

 lobular outline, and a narrow linear base. In all of them the 

 principal septa meet and unite in the centre of the calice, but without 

 forming the least indication of a columella. 



Montlivaltia trochoides, Edw. and Haiine, Ann. des Sci. Nat. s. 3, 



vol. X. p. 229 (1848) ; Brit. Foss. Cor. pt. ii. p. 129, pi. xxvii. 



figs. 2-4. 



All the varieties figured by MM. Edwards and Haime in their 



History of British Fossil Corals have been met with at Crickley. 



Most of the specimens I have seen have lost their epitheca, and have 



been otherwise rubbed and damaged. 



Montlivaltia lens, Edw. and Haime, Hist. Brit. Foss. Cor. pt. ii. 

 p. 133, pi. xxvi. figs. 7 and 8. 

 Previously to 1862 I had received many examples of this species, 

 some of which were said to have been obtained from Crickley, but 



