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



Upper Lias 1 

 Queensland, Burrum River, near Maryborough. I have seen 

 no well preserved plant remains from these beds, but they seem to 

 me to be beneath the Ipswich coal seams and above those of 

 Burnett river (60 miles away). Darling Downs near Toowoomba, 

 underneath basaltic rock, the same flora as above with Sagenopteris 

 rhoifolia, Talgai with Otozamites mandeslohi and Sagenopteris 

 rhoifolia, and near Leyburn. 



Jurassic. 



Queensland. — Ipswich coal basin has an area extending about 

 50 miles round Moreton Bay. Fossils — Equisetum rotiferum, 

 Phyllotheca concinna, Vertebraria equiseti, Sphenop>teris elongata, 

 aneimioides, flahellifolia, A. ft. var. erecta, Trichomanides laxum. T. 

 spinifolium, Thinnfeldia indica or media, T. australis, T. 

 odontopteroides-, T.falcata, Cyclopteris cuneata, Alethopteris australis, 

 Tceniopteris daintreei, T. carruthersi, Angiopteridium ensis, 

 Podozamites lanceolatus, Brachyphyllum mamillary Cunning- 

 hamites australis. 



New South Wales. — Clarence River. Tceniopteris daintreei, 

 Alethopteris australis. Carbonaceous shales, conglomerates, and 

 sandstones of great thickness but no coal of value. 



Victoria., — The shales belonging apparently to this formation 

 occupy (according to the late Government geologist, Mr. A. R. C. 

 Selwyn, F.R.S.*) four distant areas. Wannon and Glenelg, 349 

 square miles, Cape Otway, including Barrabool Hills and Indented 

 Heads, 1882 square miles; Cape Patterson to Traralgon and 

 Latrobe Valley, 1436 square miles, Welshpool 315 square miles. 

 Very few sections have yet been found that show clearly the 

 relation of this carbonaceous formation to the older strata upon 

 which it rests. In a few instances it is clearly seen to have been 

 deposited on granite, the detritus of which, not much waterworn, 

 enters largely into the composition of some of the beds. In one 

 case in the Valley of Latrobe, near Traralgon, it is found resting 

 on the upturned edges of the auriferous Silurian rocks, and the 



* See notes on Phys. Geo., &c., of Victoria, p. 17. 



