922 J. S. GARDNER—DESCRIPTION AND 
of leaves of a small acutely-lobed Proteacean (which differs from those 
of Alum Bay) and with compressed coniferous branches. Under 
this patch is a compact bed of hard whity-brown and ash-coloured 
sand with more coniferous branches and seeds. A few feet east, in 
16 feet of liver-coloured clay under 8} feet of greenish clay, we meet, 
for the first time, so far as I have observed, in these beds, with casts 
of oysters in great masses. At the corner of the chine, close to the 
beach, the grey sand contains branches of trees 3 or 4 feet long, with 
more perfect Yeredo-borings than any met with elsewhere on this 
coast. 
The eastern side of Boscombe Chine is overgrown ; but the western 
side is well exposed for nearly a quarter of a mile, and shows that 
the beds are quite as variable in a transverse as we haye seen them 
to be in the longitudinal section, and that they here rise inland 
very rapidly. The W. corner presents a curious instance of de- 
nudation by wind which has taken place within my own recollection. 
For 50 yards the upper beds have been swept off, the top of the 
lower and more compact beds now forming a plateau of that extent. 
Proceeding W. the lower beds for 150 yards are dark and compact, 
forming a perpendicular cliff 25 feet in height, the junction between 
these and the upper series, now of an orange-colour, being sharply 
defined. The masses of lignitic sand forming the upper beds of the 
lower series appear to enclose none of the seeds which we some- 
times find sparsely scattered in the sands below. These beds dip 8°, 
and under them rises greensand with casts of oysters, sometimes 
coated with Bryozoa. 60 yards eastward a clay patch occurs as many 
yards in length, and of a drab and irony hue at the base, emitting a 
sulphurous smell when divided. It has indistinct leaf-remains, and 
is penetrated by fossil roots or sedges. or the next 200 yards the 
sections are obscured by slips, but the dark beds appear occasionally 
and are seen to be full of oysters. 
Next to this is the iron-ladder path, where the cliffs are about 
80 feet high, with the addition of a capping of nearly 30 feet of 
blown sand. We here find the following section :—Lower beds: 
base very sandy clay obliquely bedded, 3 feet; dark sandy clay 
getting more decidedly clayey towards the top, the last foot being 
very stiff black clay shading to lead-colour, 30 feet; over this are 
whitish-grey sands with grains of lignite and a few seeds, 8 
feet; total about 40 feet. Upper beds: principally white glass- 
sand, but yellow towards the top and base, 40 feet. A very few 
yards west, however, the obliquely bedded sandy clays rise and 
attain a thickness of 30 feet, and are then replaced by hard white 
sand, unconformable to the obliquely bedded clays. At the end of 
200 yards these again become first more yellow and then interlace 
with nearly black sands, which soon entirely replace them. Here 
Nipadites are again found, but very sparingly, together with fruits, 
which are rare, resembling Hightea minima, Bow., and Anona, Heer 
For another 250 yards dark yellow and grey sands 50 feet thick 
alternate, the upper beds consisting of orange or white stratulated 
sands of nearly equal thickness; but at this point a small patch 
