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of the Recent Flora of Britain . 
[Hordeum distichum, Linn.] 
A single fruit found at the gas-works in Montrose, in peat 
beneath 20 feet of estuary mud and sand. (J. C. Howden, 
Trans. Edin. Geol. Soc. vol. i. p. 144). Mr. Howden has 
kindly allowed me to examine the plants from this locality. 
The barley is of a brownish colour, and uncompressed. Seeds 
of bog-bean, said to have come out of the same bed, are mere 
husks, without any remains of the albumen. The peat is 
much compressed, and changed into a bituminous-looking 
lignite, while the associated wood is brown or black, and much 
altered. The seed of barley has all the appearance of a 
specimen that has been washing about in the sea for some 
time, but it does not appear to be fossil. 
CRYPTOGAMS. 
OSMUNDA REGALIS, Linn. 
The woody root-stocks are common in the preglacial Cromer 
Forest-bed. 
ISOETES LACUSTRIS, Linn. 
Macrospores, abundant. Postglacial, Garvel Park. Inter- 
glacial, Hailes, Airdrie, and Kilmaurs. Cromer Forest-bed, 
Beeston, one specimen. 
