[277]I had intended to have accompanied this description with a group of some of the best fossils from this pit, including the fruit, fish-spines, and palates, and the large _Pleurotoma attenuata_. It was, in fact, commenced by the artist. But the specimens were obliged to be so greatly reduced, that the drawing gave no complete idea of their form and beauty, and would only have confused the reader. I have, therefore, contented myself with figuring at p. 249, in its matrix of clay, the rare _Natica cepacea_ (?), which has passed into Mr. Edwards’ fine collection, and who has kindly allowed me the use of it, with the characteristic _Cassidaria nodosa_, and a lovely _Calyptræa trochiformis_, found, as mentioned, inside a _Cardita_. At p. 244, the specimens given from the Shepherd’s Gutter Beds are _Cerithium trilinum_ (Edw. _MS._), _Voluta uniplicata_, and, in the centre, a shell, showing oblique folds on the _columella_, which Mr. Edwards thinks may be identical with _Fusus incertus_ of Deshayes. [278]In one place only in the Forest, on some waste ground at Alum Green, have I seen this plant. [279]On this point see what Bromfield observes in his _Introduction to the Flora Vectensis_, p. xxvi. [280]In Appendix II. I have given a list of all the characteristic plants of the New Forest to assist the collector; and, I trust, comprehensive enough for the botanist to make generalizations. [281]Besides these we have all over the Forest _Lastrea Filix-mas_, and _dilatata_, and _Asplenium adiantum nigrum_, and _Polystichum angulare_, with its varieties, _angustatum_ and _aculeatum_, found near Fordingbridge. My friend, Mr. Rake, who discovered _angustatum_, found also, in February, 1856, near Fordingbridge, _Lastrea spinulosa_, but it has never since been seen in the locality.