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DE. HEEE ON THE EOSSIL ELOEA OE BOVEY TEACEY. 
character, corresponding entirely with that of the Lower Miocene of Switzerland. Bovey 
had three species of cinnamon, one laurel, evergreen fig-trees, one palm, and large 
ferns, thus manifesting a subtropical climate. 
If we compare the Bovey flora with that of the Eocene beds of the Isle of Wight, we 
find certainly some points of connexion, but, on the whole, an essentially different 
character. As connecting points, we may observe that one species (viz. Laurus jprimi- 
genia, Ung.) is common to Alum Bay and Bovey, and, moreover, that the genera Quercms, 
Ficus, Fryandroides, BagFinogene, and Seguoia appear in both places, although differing 
in species. The fact of only one species being found in common at so short a distance 
— that in the Eocene formations of the Isle of AVight the highly characteristic Cinnamon 
and Lastraeas are wanting — above all, the fact that Bovey has many more species in 
common with the more remote Miocene formations of the Continent than it has with 
Alum Bay and Bournemouth, satisfies us that it belongs to a different horizon*. 
In this summary we have noticed only the species already known. Among the new 
species, however, of which I have described twenty-six, several interesting forms are 
found. The first place belongs to the Sequoia Couttsice, m., a Conifer, which we can 
illustrate by branches of every age, and by the cones and seed. It supplies a highly 
important link between Sequoia Langsdorji and Sequoia Sternbergi, the widely distributed 
representatives of Sequoia sempervirens, Lamb., and Seq. gigantea, Lindl. {Wellingtonia), 
which latter species are at present confined to California. 
Of great interest also are two species of Vitis, of which the grape-stones lie in the 
clays of Bovey. They belong to different species from the tertiary vine of the Conti- 
nent [Vitis teutonica, A. Br.) ; but it is not improbable that they may be identified nuth 
that of Iceland [Vitis islandica, m.), though we must leave this indeterminate for the 
present, as we have obtained only the leaves from Iceland, and only the grape-stones 
from Bovey. The three remarkable species of fig, the seeds of three new species of 
Fbyssa and two of Anona, one new water-lily [Nymphcea), and many highly ornate Car- 
polithes, are important additions to our knowledge of tertiary plants. 
If from the relics of Bovey plants, which are still far from numerous, we attempt to 
represent the vegetation of Bovey as it existed in the tertiary period, we shall have to 
sketch it somewhat in the following manner : — The woods that covered the slopes 
which surrounded the beds of lignite consisted mainly of a huge coniferous tree [Sequoia 
Couttsice), whose figure resembled in all probability its highly admired cousin the 
Sequoia [Wellingtonia) gigantea, Lindl., of California. It had just the same graceful 
slender appearance in its vernal shoots, thickly studded with leaflets ; and the similarity 
continued in the older shoots and branches, which were clothed with scales. But it pre- 
sented a distinct character in its shorter leaves, which were even more closely appressed 
to the shoots, and in its smaller cones. The leafy trees of most frequent occurrence were 
* I received lately from Mr. Pexgellt a collection of plants from the Tongrian stage of Hempstead 
flsle of AVight) ; it contains four Bovey species, viz. Sequoia Qouttsice, Andromeda reticulata, Nymphaia 
Doris, and Carjpolithes Websteri, 
