1862.] HEER— HEMPSTEAD PLANTS. 373 



(figs. 1, 2 h, 3). The seeds (figs. 5, 6, 7) have flat -^ings and a 

 curved nucleus, like that of the Bovey plant ; and in this they differ 

 from the seeds of Sequoia sempervirens. 



Prof. E. Porbes mentions from Hempstead (Tert. Form. Isle of 

 Wight, p. 47) Taxites (or Glyptostrohites) Parisiensis, .Brongn. 

 {Musdtes squarnatus, Brongn. Yeget. Poss. pi. 10. figs. 5, 7) ; he has 

 certainly taken the plant in question for it. It appears, indeed, to 

 be a species much resembling it. Brongniart says of his Musdtes 

 squamatus, "foliis rhomboideis ohtusis;" whilst our species has, on 

 the contrary, acuminate leaves. Our species appears, however, in 

 France, viz. at Armissan near Narbonne, whence I have received 

 some twigs. 



2. Ctpeeites Fokbesi, sp. nov. PI. XYIII. figs. 20, 21. 



The fruits are 2 millims. long and 1| millim. broad, oval, and fur- 

 nished with a fine point. They occur in great numbers together in 

 the upper three feet of the " third division " of Forbes. 



They are small black fruit, which are broadest in the middle, and 

 equally, obtusely rounded at both ends, but provided with a small 

 point at the top, which is the termination of the style. The side is 

 flat, without an edge ; therefore they were not triangular. Some- 

 times there are two lines (fig. 21 g) above the middle, because it 

 sprang up there ; the edge is often split (fig. 21 e,f). The fruit 

 agrees in size and form with that of Cyperus Montis L. ; and it 

 probably belongs to the genus Cyperus. The fruits of Scirpus are 

 always tapered at the base and thickest above the middle; those 

 of Carex are beaded, whilst those of Cyperus are shaped like the 

 fruits represented of the natural size in fig. 20, and magnified in 

 fig. 21. They belong perhaps to Cyperus reticulatus (Heer, Flora Ter- 

 tiaria Helvetise, vol. i. p. 80 ; vol. iii. p. 165), whose ears resemble 

 that of Cyperus Monti, L. ; but we have not found the fruits of this 

 species. 



3. Sabal majoe, Ung., sp. (?) 



Only a portion of a leaf of the middle of the fan ; it cannot be 

 determined with certainty. The rays are 10-12 millims. in breadth, 

 mth a projecting edge in the middle ; they have numerous longitu- 

 dinal veins, and between every two there are four finer ones. 

 Found seven feet above the ^' Black Band." 



4. Afdeomeda eeticulata, Ett. PL XYIII. figs. 12, 13. 



EttingsJiausen, Tertiare Flora von Haring, p. 65; Heer, Fossil 

 Flora of Bovey Tracey, Phil. Trans., pi. 17. figs. 10, 11. 



From a bed seven feet above the " Black Band." 



These are coriaceous leaves, provided with a petiole, and gradu- 

 ally tapering towards the base. They are distinguished by their 

 reticulated venation (fig. 12 6). Like the leaves of this species from 

 Bovey, the secondary veins project very little from the fine reticula- 

 tion which covers the surface of the leaf. It is very like Andromeda 

 protogcea, Ung., but has a shorter petiole and a finer reticulation, 



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