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shifts more or less, and here I also picked up marine shells, and some terrestrials - some of the latter fresh!
The marine (Tertiary) shells seem to be scattered all over these sands.

[[image - pen drawing of a map showing the location of Banks 1 & 2 alongside a wagon road and the railway line from Heidesheim to Budenheim. Sandbanks, sandy flat, Ancient walls are labelled, indicating the places where certain fossils were found.]]

I started for Budenheim, first along the macadamized road, and then by cross-paths. The latter were somewhat confusing, and I ran upon

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the guard at the powder-storage place, who directed me to the marked tourists path which leads through the forest. All this area is sandy, and there is much Scotch pine forest, - some of it scattered, as if native, and much no doubt planted.
There is almost no undergrowth in the forest, only an occasional [[underlined]] Juniperus communis, [[/underlined]] and the ground (sand) is almost covered with mosses and [[underlined]] Cladonia rangiferina. [[/underlined]] Aside from these there are only occasional tufts of rather slender grasses. The commonest moss ^[[insertion]] farther on [[/insertion]] is a coarse, yellow species (See specimen) which has no fruit. There are other species of mosses - [[underlined]] Dicranum, [[/underlined]] etc., - but the yellow species dominates. I also picked up fungi, on sticks in sand.