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So far as I am aware, no members of the Glossopteris flora have 

 been discovered as jet in South Australia. 



(c) Tasmania. 



The earlier discoveries of plant-remains in Tasmania were of 

 fossils chiefly Khaetic in age. The Glossopteris flora was first 

 recognised by Brough Smyth and McCoy 1 in 1874. Johnston, 2 in 

 1886, mentions the following species as occurring in the Mersey 

 River and Don Coal-basins : — 



Glossopteris Browniana, Brong. 



G. ampla, Dana. 



Gangamopteris spathulala, McCoy = G. ct/clopteroides, Feist. 



G. angustifolia, McCoy. 



G. obliqua, McCoy = G. ct/clopteroides, Feist. 



G. Clarkeana, Feist. = G. cydopteroides, Feist. 



Noeggerathiopsis media '(?), Dana = N. Hislopi (Bunli.). 



N. spathulata, Dana = A T . Hislopi (Bunb.). 



iV. elongata, Dana = JY. Hislopi (Bunb.). 



iV. prisca, Feist. = cf. N. Hislopi (Bunb.). 



Schizoneura, sp. (?) = ? 



Carpolithus (?) tasmanicus, sp. nov. = ? Cardiocarpus, sp. 



Tasmanites punctatus, Newton. 



In rocks regarded as Triassic in age, the following species, 

 common also to the Permo-Carboniferous flora, Avere found: — 

 Phyllotheca australis, Brong. 

 Sphenopteris alata (Brong.). 

 S. plamosa, McCoy = S. lobifolia, Morris. 

 S. lobifolia, Morris. 



Johnston, 3 in 1887, recorded the following species from Bruin 

 Island, Southern Tasmania : — 



Gangamopteris spathulata, McCoy = G. ct/clopteroides, Feist. 



G. obliqua, McCoy = G. cyclopteroides, Feist. 



Glossopteris Browniana, var. prccvnrsor, Feist. = G. Browniana, Brong. 



In the same year Johnston i also described a number of new 

 species, but the age of the beds from which they were obtained is 

 not very clear, and none of the specimens were figured. In his 

 work on the Geology of Tasmania, 6 published in 1888, figures of 



1 See Smyth (74), p. 24. 2 Johnston (86), p. 362. 



•* Johnston (87 1 ), p. 21. i Johnston (87-), p. 160. 



5 Johnston (88), pp. Ill, 134, pis. viii-x. 



