Note 88 — Chapter VI

Hoer is a little village, situated nearly in the centre of Scania, a province in the southern extremity of Sweden. The Chalk formation appears in several parts of this district, and Carboniferous strata at Hoeganes. To the west of Hoer, there is a range of hills, composed of ferruginous grits, micaceous sandstones, clays, and beds of quartzose conglomerate. It is in these strata that the ferns and other terrestrial plants occur, and no animal remains whatever have been found in them; their geological position appears to be between the Chalk and the Coal, but on this point nothing positive is known. The general analogy of the plants with the group forming the Flora of the Wealden, led M. Brongniart to suppose that the deposits in question belong to that formation; and M. Nillson, of Lund, who examined my collection at Brighton, recognized, among some undescribed plants from Tilgate Forest, forms that he had collected from Hoer. See "Observations sur les Végétaux Fossiles renfermés dans les Grès de Hoer en Scanie: par M. Ad. Brongniart." Ann. Sc. Nat. 1825.