94 Origin of the British Flora. 
animals. From the presence of Reindeer the deposit is 
classed as Late Glacial. 
Stellaria media. Potamogeton rufescens, 
Montia fontana. Zannichellia palustris. 
Heracleum Sphondylium. — Eleocharis palustris. 
Galeopsis Tetrahit. Scirpus lacustris. 
Atriplex. Carex panicea. 
Polygonum Persicaria. Phragmites. 
Rumex crispus. 
WEST RUNTON, NORFOLK. 
(Reid, ‘Geology of the Country around Cromer, 1882 ; 
and ‘Pliocene Deposits of Britain, MJem. Geol. Survey. 
1890.) 
The upper part of the Preglacial Cromer Forest-bed 
is here represented by a mass of peat filling a shallow 
channel. It is full of remains of animals and plants, but 
the latter are not usually well preserved, and have not yet 
been properly collected. They seem to include a some- 
what larger proportion of dry-soil species than is usually 
found in deposits of this age. 
WEST WITTERING, SUSSEX. 
(Reid, ‘The Pleistocene Deposits of the Sussex Coast. 
.. +. Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, Vol. XLVIIL., pp. 344- 
361. 1892.) 
The plant-bearing strata yield a Temperate flora, but’ 
contain at their base far-travelled erratic blocks, derived 
from an earlier glacial deposit, and are overlaid by brick- 
earth of Late Glacial date. The plant-bed corresponds 
with those at Selsey and Stone, and contains remains of 
Elephant, Rhinoceros, with some freshwater shells no 
longer living in Britain. Local conditions being excep- 
tionally favourable, the flora is unusually varied, fresh- 
water, estuarine, sea-coast, marsh, dry-soil, woodland, and 
