74 Maw — On a Fossil Flower. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE V. 

 Fig. 1 a. Graptolithus convolutus, His., showing the free linear cells at the proximal 

 end of the polypary. 1 b and 1 c. Cells with two spines rising from the 

 mouth. 



2. Biplograpsus mucronatus, Hall. 



3. Viplograpsiis Whitfieldi, Hall. 



4. Biplograpsus comcta, Gein. 



5. Dendrograptus lentus. Carr. 



6. Dicranograptus Clingani, Carr. 6 c. Three cells magnified five times. 



7. Cladograpsus capillaris, C?ixv. lb. Four cells magnified five times. 



8. Bidymograpsus elegans, Carr. 8 Z» and 8 c. Two young specimens. 8 d. Four 



cells magnified five times. 



9. CUmatograptus scalaris, Hall., showing the axis produced at the proximal 



end to a great length. 



10. CUmatograptus minutus, Carr. 



11. Biplograpsus tricornis, Carr. 115. Young specimen. 



12. Biplograpsus minimus, Carr. 



13. Biplograpsus pristis, His., showing various forms of appendages at the 



proximal termination. 



14. Mastrites maximus, Carr. 



15. Rastrites Linncci, Barr. 



16. Eastrites capillaris, Carr. 



17. Cyrtograpsus Murchisonii, Carr. 17 b. Seven cells magnified five times. 



18. Graptolithus intermedius, Carr. 



19. Graptolithus Clingani, Carr. 



Figs. 1 a, 5, and 17 are from specimens in the Jermyn Street Museum; the others 

 are from specimens in the British Museum. 



The systematic portion of the paper, and the description of the new species figured 

 in this plate, will be given in next number. 



V. — On a Flower-like Form from the Leaf-bed of the Lower 



Bagshot Beds, Studland Bay, Dorsetshire. 



By George Maw, F.G.S., F.L.S. 



THE accompanying figure (1) represents a fossil in my possession 

 obtained with some insect remains, by Mr. W. R. Brodie, of 

 Swanage, from the Lower Leaf-bed of the Lower Bagshot beds, 

 Studland Bay, Dorsetshire. It bears a general resemblance to the 



2 1 3 4 



Fig, 1.— Fossil from Studland Bay. Figs. 2, Z.—Kydia calycina, India. 



Fig. i.—Calycopteris (Getonia) Jloribunda, India. 



examples found by Mr. W. S. Mitchell, at Alum Bay and Bourne- 

 mouth;^ and to those figured by Heer as Parana (Flora Tertiaria 

 Helvetias, plate 103), from the Swiss deposits, except in its having 



^ See Mr. Mitchell's description of Parana (^ vectensis, etc., in Geological 

 Magazine, 1865, Vol. IL p. 616, figs. 1-3.— Ed. 



