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habit that it would probably give rise to coal. Then again, all the 

 stems of such palms are extremely thick and woody, and we meet 

 with no such remains. The same objections apply to Zamia and 

 Cycas. They certainly do not grow in moist places in Australia, 

 but on the contrary are found in the very driest and sandy soil. 

 Undoubted Cycads are found in connection with coal in Europe and 

 India, as the cones testify, but they are different from our existing 

 forms. 



To this genus was referred some specimens brought to Europe 

 by Count Strzelecki. In the account given of the Fossil Flora of 

 Australia, Prof. Morris says* Zeugophyllites, Brongniart, family 

 uncertain. Z. elongatus (PL vi., fig. 5, 5a). Stem 1 



leaves petiolate, oblong elongate, entire truncate, and slightly 

 thickened at the base ; veins distinct, equal, parallel. The 

 specimen figured, has been provisionally referred to Zeugophyllites 

 Brongniart, as it agrees tolerably well with the characters assigned 

 to the leaves of that genus. These leaves were probably sessile or 

 even amplexicaul, as might be inferred from their slightly 

 thickened base, and pinnately arranged at short distances along a 

 common stem, after the manner of the foliation of Schizoneura, 

 Schimper, Convallarites, Brongniart, to which genus our species 

 offers some resemblance ; the leaves however in Schizoneura, have 

 fewer veins, and appear to have been somewhat carinated. 

 Locality — Lower Jerusalem Basin, Van Diemen's Land. 



Feistmantel quotes the genus from Newcastle beds as well. I 

 have never seen it there, or at least the Newcastle specimens are 

 not the same as those of Tasmania, which are very like those of the 

 Ipswich (Q.L.) Mines, and probably as already stated, belonging 

 to Podozamites lanceolatus, Lindley and Hutton. 



Fossil Plants of Uncertain Affinities. 

 Nozggerathiopsis. Feistmantel. 

 Leaves unknown, leaflets (pinnules) wedge-shaped from the 

 base or elongate-spathulate, sub-rhomboid or obovate, margins 



* See Physical Description of N. S. W. and Van Diemen's Land, by 

 P. E. de Strzelecki, London, 1845, p. 250. 



