Deposits containing Fossil Plants. 89 
The upper part of Preglacial Cromer Forest-bed is here 
a bed of blue lacustrine clay, full of freshwater shells and 
seeds of aquatic and marsh plants. Dry-soil species and 
forest trees are absent. Among the plants are 7vapa 
natans and Stratiotes aloides. 
SILCHESTER ROMAN STATION, HAMPSHIRE. 
(Hope and Fox, ‘ Excavations on the site of the Roman 
City at Silchester, Hants, in 1890-1897, Archeologia, Vols. 
L-LVII. 1891-1898.) 
Some material sent to me in April of the present year 
(1899) by Mr. A. H. Lyell, from one of the excavations 
made to explore this station, contained a number of seeds 
which belong to the date of the Roman occupation. They 
do not include cultivated plants of any sort, with the 
doubtful exception of a single capsule of flax ; but among 
them are several weeds of cultivation, the seeds of which 
are small and starved, as though growing on exhausted 
land that for some years had been out of cultivation or 
occupation. 
Thalictrum flavum. Conopodium denudatum. 
Ranunculus Flammula. AXthus aCynapium. 
Lingua. Sambucus nigra. 
—_— repens. Galium. 
Sardous. Chrysanthemum Leucan- 
Caltha palustris. themum. 
Papaver Argemone. Mentha aquatica. 
Thlaspi arvense. Prunella vulgaris. 
Lychnis Flos-cuculi. Stachys arvensis. 
Stellaria media. Galeopsis Tetrahit. 
graminea. Atriplex. 
Hypericum perforatum. Polygonum Aviculare. 
Linum usitatissimum (?). Rumex conglomeratus. 
Spireea Ulmaria. Eleocharis acicularis. 
Rubus fruticosus. —- palustris. 
Potentilla Tormentilla. Carex. 
Alchemilla arvensis. 
