18 COLE: PEAT DEPOSIT AT FILEY. 
in the said bed of sand and gravel undermined the peat and 
produced the landshps which have worn back the top of the cliff. 
The sea could only attack the bottom of the cliff. On the north 
side of the deposit, where the beds thin out, there is still a little 
‘white clay and peat’ remaining; the peat, 2 in. thick, rests on 
boulder clay, and the white clay, 4 in. thick, lies pate it, and 
is succeeded by 1 ft. of light-blue clay, then surface soil. 
In the centre of the lake basin, where the peat is eae the 
upper portion consists of 4 ft. of fibrous peat with large pieces of . 
wood intermixed, many with the bark on, of a silvery hue, probably 
birch. The lower portion, 2 to 3 ft. thick, is more compact, and 
contains only twigs and small branches; nut shells are plentiful 
throughout. 
Mr. W. Browett, of Coventry, the gentleman who first called my 
pe to this deposit, was good enough, at my request, to cut out 
four blocks of peat from different horizons, which, together with 
other remains, were forwarded to Mr. W. Cash, o oe for deter- 
mination. Mr. Cash, with the assistance of Mr. W. West, kindly 
spent much time and trouble in investigating sg ates forwarded 
to him, and has presented the following repor 
No. 1.—Full of leaf and stem débris, ehich | is sag a Mi 
No. er — 
Mosses. Desmids. 
Polytrichum commune. Calocylindrus palangula Breb. 
Sphagnum acutifolium. Calocylindrus var. de baryé Rabh. 
Large spores of Sphagnum, Penium truncatum Breb. 
probably tetrahedral. Cosmarium obli (?). 
Cylindrocystis diplospora Lund.(?) 
Conferva, species. 
No. 3.—On splitting the peat, leaves were revealed which may 
be those of Salix caprea, judging by form, dimensions, and venation. 
No. - Conan — 
Ss. . 
Pentium brebissonii Ralfs. Synedra ulna Ehrenb. 
Penium, species. Pinnularia acrospharia Ralfs.(?) 
Cosmarium homalodermum Nard. Other Alge. 
(a punctate form). Merismopedia agg Ehrenb. 
Oscillaria, spec 
Conferva errs Kutz. 
A phanocapsa, species. 
Aphenotheca ? species. 
osmarium undulatum Corda. 
5-—Nuts of Corylus avellana, 
6.—Elytra of Coleoptera. 
7-—Wood, but not coniferous, as the large pitted vessels it con- 
tains would appear to indicate. Coniferous trees never have vessels 
Naturalist, 
