52 on the fossil flora of the coal deposits of australia, 

 Lower Carboniferous. 



Queensland. — Slates and breccias, with yellow, pink, and brown 

 sandstones and quartzites, containing plant impressions and casts 

 of Lepidodendron nothum, L. veltheimianum, Catamites radiatus, 

 C. varians, Cyclostigma australe. Conoona River, Broken River, 

 Mt. Wyatt, Medway River, Bobuntangen. 



New South Wales. — Back Creek (Barrington Diggings), Manning 

 River ; Goonoo Goonoo Creek ; Smith's Creek, near Stroud, 

 Rouchel River, Canowindra, Cowra. 



Victoria.— Red and yellow micaceous carboniferous sandstones, 

 lying unconformably on the upturned edges of true Devonian 

 rocks, with Lepidodendron australe, Avon River, Gippsland, five 

 miles above Bushy Park. 



Permian ? 



Queensland. — Bowen River, a tributary of the Burdekin, ferru- 

 ginous sandstones with coal seams, Glossopteris browniana ; blue 

 shale with Glossopteris, Phyllotheca, and other plant remains, 

 intercalated with marine beds containing Productus clarkei, Strep- 

 torhynchus crenistria, Fenestella, &c, and dioritic laccolites, 

 which have destroyed the coal. 



New South Wales. — Arowa, with Rhacopteris inequilatera, Glossop- 

 teris lineata ; Greta Creek and Anvil Creek, (both close to each 

 other) with Annularia australis, Glossopteris primoeva, G. broivniana, 

 G. elegans, Noggerathiopsis prisca ; all underlying marine beds, 

 with Spirifer glabra, Aphanaia mitchelli, Productus, Conularia, &c. 

 Sandstones, conglomerates, sometimes of large size and rounded 

 pieces of shale, blue and black ironstone bands and coal seams ; 

 Stoney Creek with Glossopteris browniana var. precursor ; Wingen. 



Victoria. — Not known. 



Tasmania. — The Mersey coal field, Don River, Spring Bay, 

 Valley of the Derwent. Various species of Glossopteris, Phyllotheca 

 hooheri, Vertebraria australis. 



