66 Origin of the British Flora. 
railway about half a mile from Auchtertool. The plants 
sent to me by Mr. Bennie were :— 
Thalictrum flavum (?). Salix polaris. 
Ranunculus aquatilis. reticulata. 
Viola palustris (?). Empetrum nigrum. 
Hippuris vulgaris. Potamogeton, 2 sp. 
CEnanthe. Eleocharis palustris. 
Menyanthes trifoliata. Scirpus pauciflorus. 
Betula nana. fluitans (?). 
Salix herbacea. Carex, 2 sp. 
DROPE, GLAMORGAN. 
My colleague Mr. Cantrill has obtained some seeds 
and freshwater shells from beds of peat and marl in a 
railway cutting near Cardiff. There is nothing character- 
istic among the fossils, though the assemblage and the 
relations of the deposits both suggest the Neolithic period. 
Viola palustris (?). Potamogeton hetero- 
Hippuris vulgaris. phyllus (?). 
Menyanthes trifoliata. Potamogeton natans. 
Betula alba. Carex. 
Juncus (?) Chara. 
DURSLEY, GLOUCESTER. 
The calcareous tufa used for building is full of Jeaves ; 
but, as the tufa is still forming, it, is difficult at present to 
date the different parts of the sheet. Leaves of Hazel, 
Elm, and Hartstongue were found by Miss M. A. Reid and 
myself. 
ELIE, FIFE. 
(Bennie and Scott,‘The Ancient Lake of Elie, Proc 
R. Phys. Soc , Edinburgh, Vol. X11, pp. 148-170. 1893.) 
The occurrence of bones of Sheep and Rabbit, with 
capsules of Flax and seeds of Fool’s Parsley, suggests that 
