136 ON THE FOSSIL FLORA OF THE COAL DEPOSITS OF AUSTRALIA, 



also Feistmantel, " Paleozoische and Mesozoische Flora des bst- 

 lichen A ustraliens " — Cassel, 1878 and 1879, p. 151, pi. 5, figs. 2 

 and 3 (though doubtfully referred to. this species) ; pi. 7, fig. 2 ; 

 pi. 23, figs. 2 and 3. 



Apparently a moderate-sized tree, with dichotomous branches, 

 covered with a network of very narrow leaf scars ; leaves narrowly 

 lanceolate, spreading, slightly incurved ; scars of the branches 

 erect, rhomboid, close, with an obovate cushion acuminate at the 

 base, keeled, furnished with a transverse rhomboid cicatrix ; scars 

 of the trunk oblong rhomboid, apex and base long and acuminate, 

 subinfiexed, and after the disappearance of the little cushion, 

 fusiform. 



This plant is characteristic in Europe of the lower coal forma- 

 tions, corresponding to the Carboniferous Limestone. It has been 

 found in many places in Silesia, in the Posidonomya schists at 

 Magdeburg, in the Hartz Mountains, at Nassau, in the valleys of 

 Thann and Niederburdach ; in France, in the Upper Vosges, and 

 in the coals of the black forest. This fossil is also, according to 

 M. Geinitz, the same as Ulodendron ornatissimum. 



In the 3rd edition of the late Rev. W. B. Clarke's " Sedimentary 

 Formations of New South Wales" (1875), at p. 17, mention is 

 made of a species named Lepidodendron rimosum, of which in 

 1878 Feistmantel, gave a fig. (loc. cit.), remarking that it seemed 

 more to resemble L. veWieimianum. Before this, 1876, as I have 

 stated previously, Professor de Koninck had submitted about 

 twenty plant specimens sent to him by the Rev. W. B. Clarke to 

 the eminent Belgian paleontologist, M. Crepin of the Brussels 

 Museum. Though the specimens were in a very bad state of 

 preservation, he was able to recognize L. veWieimianum, besides 

 Catamites radiatus and C. varians, all of which we shall see are 

 found in the Drummond Range. Dr. Feistmantel was not aware 

 of Mons. Crepin's determinations at the time he pronounced upon 

 his specimens, so that the independent testimony of two such 

 eminent and experienced authorities gives additional weight to the 

 identification. Mr. Clarke's fossils are quoted by De Koninck as 

 frcm the quarries of Murree, Russell's Shaft, Glen William, 



