162 ADDITIONAL EVIDENCE ON FOSSIL SALISBURLE FROM AUSTRALIA. 



he only figures it (loc. cit. p. 204) ; and I think it belongs to the 

 Proceedings to have it represented ; I therefore give a drawing of 

 it (Plate 111). The author does not state where his specimen comes 

 from, and more light on the subject will be highly interesting. 



However our Salisburia pahnaia, if it ought to be considered 

 as such, is not the oldest of its genus, as de Saporta has named 

 Salisburia ^;?'imi^ema, a plant discovered by Professor Grand' 

 Eury in the Middle Permian of Jelovick, near Tchoussovskaia, 

 in the Urals ; about which discovery he says : — 



" Jusqu'ici les Gingkos ne depassaient pas le rhetique, dans la 

 direction du passe (in the past). En Europe le Salisburia crenata 

 (Brauns) Nath., et, en Australie, le Salisburia antarctiea, Sap., 

 espece encore inedite, marquaient les derniers jalons (land marks) 

 qui aient ete signales." [Sur quelques types de vegetaux recem- 

 nient observes a I'etat fossile. M. G. de Saporta, in Comptes 

 Eendus Acad. Sciences, Ir. Semestre, 1882, page 922.] 



Before ending this note I beg leave to point out the importance, 

 for our geological record, of ascertaining the precise locality whence 

 Salisburia antarctiea, Sap. comes. Some clue to it might be 

 found in Rev. T. Woods's elaborate paper on " The Coal Plants of 

 Australia," as he places the Burnett River beds, where already 

 Jeanpaidia (Baiera) biclens, T. Woods, has been found, as 

 Infralias or Lower Lias (?) with a query. 



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