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THE GEOLOGIST. 



leaves predominate, but remain^; of fern? are also nuniorous ; always, however, in a 

 verv frairmentarv condition. ]Monoeotyledons are rare. Xo distinct remains of 

 fruit have been fomid. 



:^Ir. Eunbury described twenty-: V,r. . " ' ' (S Ferns, 1 Monocotyledon, 



and 14 Dicotyledons'!, which he lui- ' . . i i iiuinate among these remains ; 



and added a list of th.^-o described by rroij^.-r lioor, in his memoir on the same 

 .v^ l^; several that are wanting- in the other • M. lleer has 

 ^ ' .1 : ? 0 \ r' -1 examined bv Mr. Bunbiu'v: and the 



subject. Each list ^ 'lU. 

 tlurreon >^ i ^ ; 



latter . 



Profe^:-, ......... - 



amounts to t!uvry-^J^\'H : 

 imperfectlv ii. Tiu 

 1. Tho -i: uiuLini 

 thefern^ . v ' ^rrear 

 Island; namely. /. 

 Ftcris is a plant v li 

 a variety of ooivl'.: 

 Atlantic groitp - . 1 - . i ■ 



fossils appear to be vov;. ^'vo. . le t 



namely, Vaccinium Jladercise, £rica arborea, 

 Of these, the Vacciniioyi is at 



Jorge dev): 



. seem to be noticed by the Swiss 

 -,ble forms in the two collections 

 b must be considered as very 

 . ' wing remarks : — 

 1 o:\ve- and the most abimdant of 

 1 N\ lib -^iioeies now existing in the 

 . .v.td P(eris aquiUna. The 

 ' : :i.l aecomraodates itself to 

 ;ipviOiir to be confined to the three 

 tries, and A/.^t c-. Touv other of the 

 sipecies n^-.w' iitb.ii'! ■'.cing Madeira; 

 li' ' " . ;^ and JJavallia 

 to 1 t ^ the Island of 

 porbap-^. jtistify ns 

 L'Oiid-rions of climate 

 \ erv wldelv ditferen.t 



not 



Ca/iarriens(S. 



Madeira ; the "\ - ^ 

 in inferring a ' _ 

 of the Island iu the u 

 from those now existiii 



2. Certain otbev f 

 from any now b > , 

 to lielong to ex;:;iv L 



3. Xone of the fossils can be said to belong distinctly and positively to tropical 

 fitmilies. 



4. Those forms, among the lo 

 tion of Madeira, do not show ai 

 existing Flora. 



in tb.e list (about foar or live) are distinctly ditierent 

 . : in Madeii-a or the neighbouring Islands, and appear 



'onr from the present vegeta- 

 a the American or anv other 



5. The fossil leaves from S. 



reeent vegetation of the Mad^ 

 pred Mibi;i:iv'e '\ 



ani 



6. Tb.> 

 a charaei. 



existing >:aie -..i' tai 

 n>ual in tb^e pTant-'v-, 



7. The very small 

 may be o\\-ing to a ^ 



8. On the "whole. 

 Madeira, at the time 

 absolutely identical a 

 all such concha-' 11- u 



Mr. Bunbt;r; - 

 of the evidenc e a 1 v 

 deo-ree of confulon 



\ ; 'it tb? whole, a decided analogy to the 

 'i\-t-. iua-iiiiicb as there is among them a 

 and ent:i'o-oJ.u-oA leave-, with smooth (not wrinkled) 



Lllaut veiit-tin- >>t t'evn> \\-ltli those of Dicotyledons is 

 1. in ^\-llicb it -haw- a complete agreement with, the 

 .1 ulie I'l: ' ■ 1 . ■ -, Snob an intermixture is not 

 : -b a .J-^ ; . -eeondary, or tertiary periods. 



' • . :' M.M ;\ Ivvlens hitherto found is remarkable, but 



lou t; 

 tit- 

 he r, 



■ ed to conclude that the vegetation of 

 1' le;i.'-l od was formed, wa*. tliough not 

 ■ii ;. Aoi n^n \'ery did'erent from it. But 

 .'.1 caution. 

 , i.gtli into att inqtiiry as to the value 

 av.s of Dicotyledonoris plants, and the 

 as to the alh- 



Bv the Rev. T. Bkowx. 



rdod by detached le, 



due to conclusions founded xipon such evidenc 

 nities of extinct plants. 



2. On a section of a part of the Fifeslm-e Coast. 

 Counnunicated by Sir R. Murchison, Y.P.G.S. 



A section of the Lower Coal-measures, as exposed on the northern shore of the 

 I'irth of Forth, from Burnt-island to Anstruther, constructed by the Rev. T. 

 Brown, of Edinburgh, was exhibited to the meeting. In his notes on the section, 

 the author remarked that the limestone with which the section commences at 

 liiirnt-island, the fossils of which have long been known, is the equivalent of the 

 Bardiehonse beds. Passing eastward through the :Monntain-limestone (500 feet 



