Haast. — On the Sedimentary Rocks of Canterbury. 461 



and a Pecopteris, are the most remarkable plant remains from 

 this locality. 



" Mataura and Waikaiva. — The TaniojiteridcB, Zamites, Ptero- 

 phylhim, Nillsonia, altogether in forms analogous to Triassic 

 genera, with Aspleniiun ungeri, of such universal occurrence, 

 prove the identity with the last-mentioned beds. 



" Grey River, Pakawau, and Wangapeka contain a flora 

 which is well distinguished from that of other localities of the 

 Cretaceo-tertiary formation, and which decidedly ought to be 

 placed with the Cretaceous formation. However, the material 

 at my command will not allow me to state at present with 

 certainty to which of its subdivisions these remarkable beds 

 belong. 



" The flora contains four Filices, amongst them one form, 

 Martensia, specially characteristic of Cretaceous beds ; one 

 Dammara ; one new genus of Taxinea ; four species of Podo- 

 cnrjnuw : one Dacrydium ; one most interesting genus uniting 

 the genera Ginkgo and PhyllocJadus ; two Graminea ; one Mu- 

 sacea; one Palma, closely allied to a Cretaceous species; one 

 Casuarinea ; three species of Quercus ; one Dniophyllum ; two 

 species of Fagus, Nemophylon ; one genus of ULnacea, uniting 

 Jjlniis and Planera : one Ficus, Cinnamomum haasti, two Pro- 

 teacecE ; and several Dialypetalm. 



"From the Tertiary deposits, Shag Point and the Malvern 

 Hills furnished the most interesting plant remains. 



" The flora contains three Filices, amongst them one form 

 closely allied to European Tertiary species, a Sequoia, closely allied 

 to the European Sequoia couttsia ; Araucaria haasti ; two species 

 of Dammara ; two of Podocarpus : one Dacrydium ; one Najadea ; 

 one Palma; one Casuarinea ; three species of Myrica (!), amongst 

 them one almost identical with a European Tertiary species ; 

 one Alnus (!), most remarkably near a European Tertiary form ; 

 four species of Quercus : three of Fagus ; one Ulmus ; one Pla- 

 nera; one Ficus; one Hedycarya ; three Laurinea ; one Santa- 

 lacea; one Protacea; three forms of Gamopetalo) ; and several 

 Dialypetalce.'' 



I need scarcely point out that this information is very valu- 

 able, and will gladly be received by New Zealand geologists ; 

 and I have no doubt that, if once in possession of Baron von 

 Ettingshausen's interesting paper, a great step towards the 

 elucidation of many obscure questions in our stratigraphical 

 geology will have been accomplished. 



