OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 431 



one arrives as to his latest views, which are nowhere distinctly 

 formulated, and which require to be supplemented by Appendices 

 xviii and xx (in which latter he prints with few remarks Feist- 

 mantel's arrangement of the whole series from a Manuscript 

 Communication), are somewhat as follows. The lowest beds of 

 the system, e.g., at Port Stephens, whether to be called Devonian 

 or Carboniferous, contain Lejpidodendron, 2 sp., and CyclosHgma, 

 2 sp., Sigillaria, ScMzopteris, and Glossopteris primceva (Feist.). 

 These are succeeded by Marine beds full of Carboniferous fossils ; 

 and these again by the Lower Coal, characterised by (?) Lepido- 

 dendron audrale, Macrotcpyniopteris sp., and Glossopteris, 4i sp., in- 

 cluding G. Broivniana and G. prhnceva. Upon this Lower Coal is 

 deposited a series — the last, so far as we yet know for certain — 

 of Marine beds, containing again Carboniferous forms in abun- 

 dance, as seen at Stony Creek, Greta, Mount Wingen, &c. They 

 are succeeded by the N'ewcastle Coal Beds, represented also in 

 the Illawarra and Western fields, containing a Palaeozoic fish, 

 Urosthenes, and a flora which most geologists have regarded as 

 Mesozoic* Two genera.— Phyllotheca (P. australis and P. racemosa) 

 and Vertebraria — represent the Equisetum family. The Ferns 

 are represented by Sphenopteris lohifolia and 8. alata, TcBniopteris 

 sp., Otopteris ovata, Glossopteris Broivniana, G. reticulum, G. 

 oblongata, and Gamgamopteris angustifolia. In Cycads we have 

 three species of Noeggerathia, N. spatulata, N. media, N. elongata, 

 and one of Zeugopliijllites. The conifers appear by BracJiy' 

 phyllum australe. 



Here Feistmantel, whose arrangement does not, however, quite 

 correspond with that now quoted, intercalates the Bacchus Marsh 

 sandstones of Victoria, related by their fossil Gangamopterids, to 

 the Talchir group, which underlies the Damuda coal-bearing 

 series of India, in which Glossopteris takes a leading position. 

 But so far as New South Wales is concerned, the next beds as- 

 certained are the Hawkesbury and Waianamatta rocks, which 

 cannot be separated from each other, and which yield three 



* It is possible that there occurs at this period a repetition of marine beds. At least 

 Mr. Clarke say ■<. p 64: — "Between the Hawkesbury rocks and the ccal there is often a 

 series of beds belonging: to the coal measures in which Palaeozoic fossils are stated to have 

 been found " Mr. Clarke w;is < vidently doubtful as to the fact, which would, if ascertained, 

 have triumphantly vindicated his arguments. 



