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thinks that his species is identical with the Queensland Lepidoden- 

 dron, recognized by Carrnthers as L. nothum, linger, but Dr. 

 Feistmantel and others think that they are different. 



Lepidodendron nothum, Unger (see Carr. in Jour. Geol. Soc, 

 1872, p. 350, pi. 26, fig. 1 to 14, also Feistmantel, pi. 15, fig. 9). 

 Scars of the leaf contiguous, rhombic, with a single and generally 

 central vascular scar ; leaves small, peltate and imbricate, on 

 long slender petioles, fruit produced on the apices of the thick 

 branches, a single sporangium, almost sessile, borne on the middle 

 of the petiole of the leaf, roots stigmarioid. 



In the paper of Mr. Carruthers referred to, full details as to the 

 structure of this plant are given from abundant specimens brought 

 by Mr. Daintree from Queensland. There it is so common that a 

 full series of specimens are easily found, giving a knowledge of 

 the roots, leaves, and fruit scales of this species. Thus many 

 doubtful points in the structure were cleared up. Mr. Carruthers 

 believes it to be identical with Dr. Dawson's Leptophlceum rhombi- 

 cum, and thus the species has a range all over the world. In 

 Queensland, Mr. Daintree obtained it from Mt. Wyatt, Canoona, 

 and the Broken River, all in Northern Queensland. Prof. M'Coy 

 quotes it from Gympie, probably misunderstanding the report of 

 Daintree. I have not been able to find it in the rocks of Gynipie, 

 where, however, there are many plant remains, which seem to be 

 like Cordaites australis, M'Coy. It was found on the Drummond 

 Range, at the end of the central railway. (Bobuntungen, Med- 

 way River, &c.) It is in a light brown or yellow micaceous sand 

 stone, forming the escarpments of all the eastern face of the range, 

 and dipping away to the westward. The strata show much false 

 bedding, and oblique laminae like the aerial rocks of the 

 Hawkesbury. Also in many places in N.S. Wales in (presumably) 

 Devonian rocks, as at Cowra, Canowindra, on the Lachlan River ; 

 Goonoo Goonoo Creek, on the Liverpool Plains. 



4c. Lepidodendron veltheimianum. Sternberg. Flor. d. vol 1, 

 part 12, pi. 52, fig. 2. See also Schimper, " Paleontologie Vege- 

 tale, vol. ii, p. 29, atlas, pi. 59, figs. 6, 7, 8. Schimper gives a large 

 list of references and synonyms, which I need not quote here. See 



