II.— GEOLOGY. 



Abt. XXIX. — Contributions to tJie Knowledtjc of Uic Fossil 

 Flora of Neiv Zealand. 



Bv Professor Dr. Cokstantix Baron von Ettingshausen,. 

 Hon. Member N.Z. Institute. 



Communicated by Sir James Hector. 



[Translated from the German (Vienna, 1887) by C. -Juhl.j 



[Bead before the WelUiigto)i Philosophical Society, 13th- Fcbniaru, J8'Jl.] 



Plates XXIY. to XXXII. 



Intkoduction." 



The genealogical relation of the living flora of New Zealand 

 to its Tertiary one has already formed the subject of a paper 

 I submitted to the Imperial Academy of Sciences of Vienna 

 under the title, " Genetische Gliederung der Flora von Neu- 

 seeland " (Sitzungsberichte, vol. Iviii., part i., p. 953). I have 

 pointed out in it that the endemic New Zealand flora not only 

 contains types which may probably descend from the principal 

 element of its Tertiary flora, but also such ones probably de- 

 rivable from some accessory elements of the latter flora. 



Only a short time had elapsed since my attention had been 

 again drawn to the subject, and I was able to lay a memoir 

 before the above-naiaied Academy, entitled " Beitriige zur 

 Kenntniss der fossilen Flora Neuseelands" (Contributions to 

 the Fossil Flora of New Zealand, Denksch. K. Akad. AYis- 

 sensch., Wien, vol. lii., part i., 1887), in which I state, " It 

 was my good fortune in 1884 to receive two collections of 

 fossil plants from New Zealand, for which I am indebted to 

 the kindness of Professor Dr. Julius von Haast, of Christ- 

 church, and Professor T. J. Parker, of Dunedin." 



Seventeen localities of fossil plants are here represented, 

 which belong to three formations— the Tertiary, Cretaceous. 

 and Trias. 



* See also "Tertiary Flora of Australia," by Baron von Ettings- 

 hausen ; translated and published by the Gov. Surv. of N. S. ^Valcs, 

 Sydney, 1888 ; p. 82. Von Ilaast : Tran-^. N.Z. Inst., xix., p. 44'.). Geol. 

 Magazine, 1887, p. 359. 



