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Phyllotheca (Brongniart) however, is best developed in Europe in the 

 Italian Oolite, in which one form has all the genuine characters ; 

 and nothing of this kind is known anywhere in Carboniferous 

 strata. I may add that the difference in form between Phyllotheca 

 australis and some Catamites, is trifling, and it would not be any 

 great violation of the generic characters of either, to call the 

 Phyllotheca referred to, an Australian Catamites. I do not think 

 that the Newcastle species is the same as the one found in the 

 shale of the Hawkesbury sandstone. This will be explained 

 further on. 



In 1876 Dr. Feistmantel published some notes on the age of 

 some of the Fossil Floras in India * In this and subsequent 

 publications of the Indian Geological survey he reviewed the 

 question of the age of our coal plants, some more of which had 

 been found unrepresented in the Indian beds. His observations 

 on this subject were continued to the present year, and were 

 scattered through numerous publications, notably the Records of 

 the Geological Survey (Paleontologia Indica, three volumes of 

 which refer to the fossil flora), and the journal of the Asiatic 

 Society. More complete references will be found in the course of 

 this monograph in connection with the plants he dealt with. 



From the year 1874 until the present day Professor M'Coy of 

 the Melbourne University, has published various parts of a 

 Prodromus of the Paleontology of Victoria. In these he has 

 figured and described many of the coal plants of Victoria, though 

 payable seams of coal have never been found in that colony. The 

 fossils there published are species of Cycads, Ferns, and Lycopods, 

 The figures and descriptions leave nothing to be desired, and the 

 subject has been treated in an excellent manner. In dealing with 

 such forms as Pecopteris (Alethopteris) australis, Tceniopteris 

 daintreei, and Podozamites, the author justly refers the beds in 

 which they occur to the Oolitic period. He considers them of the 

 same age as those of Newcastle, New South Wales, even though 



* Records Geol. Survey India, IX, Parts 3 & 4, also Jour. Asiatic Soc, vol. 45. 

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