BY A. b. WALKOM. 



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rated by the latter. Woodward refers to the fish from the 

 indurated sliale as indicating a distinct Permo-Carboniferous 

 age, and those from the grey mudstone as Triassic or Rhajtic* 

 Obviously, great caution must be exercised in using these results 

 for the purpose of correlation. 



(b) Victoria. — The Lower Mesozoic rocks of Victoria comprise 

 series of shales, felspathic sandstones, and mudstones, with 

 occasional conglomerates, which are developed in three areas, 

 viz., South Gippsland, Cape Otway, and Wannon River. Asso- 

 ciated with these rocks are coal-seams up to nine feet in thick- 

 ness. Analyses of the coals are of the same general type as 

 analyses of the Ipswich coals. The flora of some of these beds 

 has been described by Seward,! whose conclusion regarding their 

 age is, that they are approximately the same age as the Inferior 

 Oolite of England, or the Rajmahal Series of India. i Occa- 

 sional additions to the species described by Seward have been 

 recorded by Chapman. 



The following list comprises the species described by both 

 Seward and Chapman : — 



Marchantites sp. 

 j^Eqiiisetites wonthaggieiisis 



Equisetites sp. 

 o.Lycopodiles victorice. 



Adiantites lindsayoides. 



Thianfeldia AlcCoyi. 



Thinnfeldia sp. 



HhizoynojHeris Etheridgei. 

 /:)Steiio2)teris eloiujata. 

 f^Steiiopteris sp. 



aCoiiiopleviS hynieiiophylloides o.Gvukgo sp. 



var. australica. 

 Sphenopteris ampla. 

 Sphenopteri.s sp. 

 T(Bniopteris Daintreei. 

 aT. Daiiitrep.i var. major. 

 [S7\ spaf.uhU'i var. crenafa. 

 o.Cladophlebis denficAilata var. 



australis. 

 ftThinnfeJdia odontopter aides . 



(i.Baiera australis. 

 a Ik gracilis. 



Ginkgo (female flowers?). 

 (i.Nilssonia sp. 



Podozamit'<s Barklyi. 



P. ellipticus. 

 ftp. Kuisto'tii. 



P. longij'oliu'i. 

 ihAraiicarites sp.A. 



Mem. Geol. Surv. N. S. Wales, Palaeontology, No. 10, pp. 

 t Rec. Geol. Surv. Victoria, Vol. i., Pt.3, 1904. 

 t Op. cif., p. 184. 



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