TILGATE FOREST. 
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these fossils were found at HeadfoldWood Common, 
in ferruginous marly clay, about five feet below the 
surface, and beneath a stratum of calcareous sand- 
stone ; at Loxwood, bones have also been found in 
clay. 
The Tilgategrit is quarried in many places south 
of Riegate ; and at Heaver’s Wood, in the ])arish 
of Horley, contains cycladefs and bones of reptiles ; 
and near Flanchford, paludincp, and unione.s, occur 
in abundance.* 
Organic liemains of Tilgate Forest. — These 
are exceedingly numerous, and present as interest- 
ing an assemblage as any hitherto recorded. In 
this division of the work, we ])ropose to give a 
general idea only of the fossils contained in these 
strata ; their characters will be fullv detailed in the 
chapter ex})ressly devoted to the subject. 
T Vegetable Remains . — Stems of large plants, allied 
to the genera Dracmna, Cycas, &c. 
Clatharia Lyellii. 
Endogenites erosa. 
Leaves, &c. of plants of the fern tribe. 
Cycadites. 
Equisetum Lyellii ; at Pounceford. 
Lonchopteris Mantelli ; in the Worth sandstone. 
Sphenopteris Mantelli ; in the Tilgate stone. 
Carpolithus Mantelli. 
Carbonized vegetables ; too imperfect to deter- 
mine their characters. 
Testacea. — The testacea which are found in 
these beds, but seldom have the sliells remaining, 
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Coniniunicated by W. Constable, Esq. of Dover’s Green, near 
