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they occur associated with berries. The occurrence of a species of 

 Xyssa, I think, may be also accepted for the Bournemouth strata. 

 Of the Protectees, besides Petrophiloides, a seed belonging to the 

 Protea occurs, perhaps corresponding with the leaf which I have 

 seen among the fossils of Alum Bay. In Bournemouth and Alum 

 Bay were found the seeds of some other Proteacm which are not 

 in Sheppey, as they have delicate wings. Some of the cones 

 referred by Bowerbank to Petrophiloides belong to Sequoia. The 

 Gamopetala are represented by many genera, of which almost all 

 appear also in the Miocene Flora. The fruit of Cinchonidium of 

 Sheppey and the leaves of a species of Ginchottidinm from Bourne- 

 mouth may belong together. I accept the same for the Apocyno- 

 pkyllum fruit of Sheppey and the corresponding leaf of Bournemouth. 

 This last accords in all its characters with A. Reus si, which also 

 appears in the fossil Flora of Sagor. But I have not found up to 

 the present time, in the Eocene Flora of Great Britain, any leaf 

 belonging to the characteristic genus Strychnos, the seeds of which 

 are met with at Sheppey. Of the SapotacKe there are two species 

 of seeds, which perhaps correspond with two species of Sapotace<e 

 leaves of the Bournemouth Flora. One of these extends throughout 

 in the Tertiary Flora ; the other, on the contrary, seems to be 

 peculiar to the Eocene Flora. Two species of Diospyros, which 

 are common both to Sheppey and Bournemouth, are peculiar to 

 this Flora. The species of Symplocos is common to Sheppey and 

 Sagor : in these two localities the putamen was found. In corres- 

 ponding abundance are represented the Dialypetalce. They are 

 specially characteristic of the Eocene Flora in general, and of the 

 Sheppey Flora in particular. To the first belong Magnolia 



eocenica, Eugenia eocenica, Sapindus eoceuicus, Metrosideros micro- 



carpa, and Bauhhua primiyenia, whose leaves or fruits are to be 

 found associated together in Bournemouth. To the last belong 

 the genera Meimpermacites, Victoria, Thlaspidium, Corchorites, 

 Theobroma, Lawsonia ; the species Illidum ApoUinis, Nelumbium 

 microcarpum, L'ucumites Sheppyensis, Cotoneaster Sheppyenm, Prunus 

 prisca and Druidum, Amygdalus eocenica and Sporadum, Podo- 

 yonium Sheppyense, &c. Belonging also to other Eocene Floras 

 and to the Miocene Flora we have here only the Dialypetalous 

 plants, Nelumbium Buchii, and Eucalyptus oceanica. Amongst the 

 fruits and seeds of Sheppey we find also some species of herbaceous 

 or tender plants whose leaves would not be preserved in the 

 Tertiary strata. To these belong the seeds of Solanites eleyans, 

 Menispermites abut aides f Cucumites Sheppyeiisis, the fruits of Thlas- 

 pidium ovatum, and of Corchorites. \ 



Linnean Society of London. 



Xocember 6, 1879. — Prof. Allman, F.B.S., President, in the 

 chair. — W. H. Twelvetrees, Esq., of Orenburg, Russia, was elected 

 a Fellow of the Society. — Mr. W. T. Thiselton Dyer exhibited some 

 photographs of vegetation, including trees of Cinchona LedyeHana, 

 taken in the Botanic Garden of Buitenzorg, Java. — Mr. W. A. 



