Sdiidstoites and tlieiv Fosftlls. 257 



THE FOSSIL FLORA. 



1._..1847. Cyclopteris (?) aii-ustifolia, McCoy. A.M.N.H., vol. 



XX., p. US, p]. 19. f. 3, :3a. 

 2. — 1861. Gangamopteris angustifolia, McCoy Trans. Roy. 



Soc. Vic, 1SG(», vol, v., }). 107, and footnote. 

 3. — 1866. Gangamopteris angiistifolius. McCoy. Rec. Zool. 



and Pal. Vic, Exhib. Essay, p. 21. 

 4. — 1875. Gangamopteris angustifolia, McCoy. Prod. Pal. Vic, 

 Dec. II., pp. 11-12, plates 12, (f. 1) and 13 (f. 2). 



Gangamopteris spatiilata, McCoy. Id., p. 12, pi. 13, 



f.l, la. 

 Gangamopteris obliqua, McCoy. Id., p. 13, pi. 12. 

 f. 2-4. 

 5. — 1892. Schizonetira sp. McCoy. Ann. Rep. Dept. of Mines, 

 Vic, for 1891, p. 30. 



Zengophyllites sp. McCoy. Id. 

 6. — 1894. Ptilopln-llum officeri, McCoy. Proc. Roy. Soc. Vic, 



vol. VI., p."^ 143. 

 7. — 1898. Taeniopteris sweeti, McCoy. Proc Roy. Soc. Vic, 



vol. X., pt. 2, p. 285. 

 8.— 1905. The Glossopteris Flora, by E. A. Newell Arber. 

 Brit. Mus. Catalogue. Contains several references to this 

 locality and its flora. 

 The first record of fossils from these sandstones was made 

 by the late Sir Frederick McCoy as far back as 1847, which 

 was practically contemporaneous with the opening up of the 

 quarries in this district. In this paper, which was contributed 

 to the Annals and Magazine of Natural History, McCoy named 

 and figured a plant as a douljtful Ci/cJopteris under the specific 

 name of mignstifolia. 



It was not until the year 1861 that we find the first proposal 

 of the genus Ganymnajyteris in the Transactions of the Royal 

 Society of Victoria, and even then it is not of a very obtru- 

 sive character. 



In 1866, McCoy, in an essay on the Recent Zoology and 

 Palaeontology of Victoria, mentions a plant from the Bacchus 

 Marsh Sandstones, " of the size, shape, and reticulated neuration 

 of the Glossopteris Browniana, but without the midrib," and 



