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with salt. and coloured with the dark tint of carbonaceous matter. 
These sands contain very perfect remains of branclies of a Coniferous 
tree resembling the genas Dcicridium and large pieces of Cactus. It 
should be mentioned that this is the earliest cactus known, and that 
Fig. 4.— BRANCH OF CONIFER ( Taxodium ). 
the spines are found to be still flexible. The sands are in other 
places crowded with fruits — probably a Pnvdanns fruit ( Nipadites ) — 
resembling those met with at Sheppey. Unfortunately the salt con- 
tained in them eflloresces and splits all these specimens into frag- 
ments. 
Fig. 5. 
At Hengistbury Head we bave deeper sea-deposits, with sharks’ 
teeth and bones. At Highcliff, Barton, we have relics of a sea 
