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plants allied to the rushes. Several fragments of long, ovate, 

 pointed leaves on the same slab can, without doubt, be referred 

 to the genus Euralyptux. Their venation difi'ers from those 

 of the fossil species described by McCoy and Ettingshauseii, in 

 having remarkably long and sub-parallel secondary veins ; and 

 in point of fact, very closely agree with the leaves of E. 

 amygdalina, Labill. The areolar interspaces formed between 

 the secondary and tertiary veins are occupied by moderately 

 large pustular oil-cells. On two separate fragments of the 

 same ironstone bed there are numerous leaves of a Banksia, 

 allied to B. marginata, Cavanilles, but having a narrow, 

 parallel-sided ligulate form of leaf. The presence of a new 

 species of Banksia, allied to a sjjecies now found living in the 

 same locality, is interesting, as pointing to the same generic 

 element in the flora of that tolerably remote period. And 

 tnis, together with the occurrence of a Eucalyptus allied to 

 the living E. amygdalina, proves that the characteristic flora 

 of the " open forest tyiie,"! had already become established. 

 The evidence of marine fossils in ironstone bands above the 

 older " gold-drifts '" is in favour of a Janjukian or Miocene 

 age ; but whether this ironstone with terrestrial remains is a 

 synchronous deposit can only be proved by further detailed 

 stratigraphic work in the district whence it came. In appear- 

 ance and general characters it closely resembles a typical iron- 

 stone of the Bacchus Marsli series with plant-remains ; and also 

 the Htawell ironstone deposit containing moderately shallow- 

 water marine fossils. 



In concluding these notes I must express my thanks to Mr. 

 J. W. Audas, of the National Herbarium, who kindly assisted 

 me in the comparison of the plant-remains here mentioned. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATES IV. AND Y. 



Plate IV. 

 Fig. 1. — Impression of a bird's feather in ironstone ; associated 

 with leaves and stems. Redruth, Western Victoria. 

 Nat. size. 



1 See H. Deane, Rec. Oeol. Siirv. Vict., vol. i., iit. 1, 1902, p. 18. 



