Since Sir Charles Bunbury described the Flora of Nagpúr, drawing the most rational conclusions, and since Messrs. Oldham and Morris illustrated a portion of the Flora of the Rajmahal Series in the Rajmahal Hills, nothing of importance has come before the public regarding the Flora of the Indian Plant-bearing Series, although the then abundant material has subsequently been considerably increased through the exertion of the officers of the Geological Survey of India, who have also done much to explain the geological relations of the whole Series.

That the latest movement of the south-east of England has been one of depression is evidenced by the numerous “submerged forests” which occur at intervals round the coast, ranging downwards, not only to half-tide level, but to beyond the lowest ebb; and therefore not explicable merely on the hypothesis of sheltering sandbars, or lines of dunes, even where such can be shown to have existed.

In a recent Number of the Geological Magazine Mr. Burns assumes that Geologists in general seem to be satisfied with Mr. Croll's theory of the motion of glaciers because they do not write in refutation of it. I am convinced that with some at least it requires no refutation, and its very obvious inadequacy is to them a sufficient reason for passing it over in silence. There cannot be wanting men who, appreciating the difficulty of the problem, can only smile at such a “solution.”

Polypary slender, several inches in length, distal portion straight, proximal portion sharply recurved. Hydrothecæ 20 to 25 to the inch, in contact at their bases only; narrowing in the direction of the apertural portion, which is curled up into a rounded lobe.