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Brachyphyllum crassum, Tenison-Woods. 

 (Plate 9, fig. 1.) 



1883. Brachyphyllnm australe var. crassum, Tenison-Woods, Proc. 



Linn. Soc, X.S.W., 8, p. 159, t. 5. 

 1892. Brachyphyllum crassum, Etheridge, Geol. Pal. Qland., p. 385, 



t. 18, fig. 2. 



" Plant robust, thick ; stem and branches repeatedly dicho- 

 tomous ; leaves thick and fleshy, denselj' crowded, homodromous, 

 short, broad, obtuse, conspicuously keeled, erect, closely imbricate, 

 but slightly spreading ; branches and branchlets very little nar- 

 roM'er than the parent stem, and of equal width to the summit ; 

 all portions of the plant curved, three leaves visible in each spiral, 

 and about three rows in one centimetre. Length of leaves, from two 

 to three millimetres ; breadth, from five to six ; diameter of cauline 

 stem at %\ddest part, ten millimetres ; of branchlets, eight milH- 

 metres ; length of shortest, eighteen millimetres." (Tenison- 

 Woods.) 



The Geological Survey Collections contain a few small speci- 

 mens of this species, but as they are incomplete, the original descrip- 

 tion by Tenison-Woods, who had much larger and more complete 

 specimens, is quoted. 



The confusion regarding the naming of the specimens has 

 been discussed by Etheridge. ^^ 



Locahties : — {Walloon Series): Walloon (F 705) ; Clifton 

 Colhery (F 711) ; Rosewood (near Ipswach) (F753). 



Figured specimen : The original of Plate 9, fig. 1, is sj)ecimen 

 F 705 in the collection of the Queensland Geological Survey. 



Taxites planus, Feistmantel. 

 (Plate 9, fig. 4.) 



1879. Taxites planus, Feistmantel, Foss. Fl. Gondwana Sm., 1, 



pt. 4, t. 13-15. 

 1883. ? Taxites medius, Tenison-Woods, P.L.S.N.S.W., 8, p. 160, 



t. 9, fig. 3. 

 1902. Palissya gracilis, Shirley, Qland Geol. Surv., Bull. 18, p. 8 



t. 2. 



A number of specimens from the Walloon Series at Stewart's 

 Oreek, Stanwell, have been referred to Palissya gracilis by Shirley.^ 



" Etheridge (92), p. 385. ^^ Shirley (02), p. 8, t. 2. 



