42 Transactions. — Geology. 



A brief record of theii- flora follows : — 



I. Mount Potts. Here have been collected — Equisetum 

 microdon , m., a species corresponding to a European Triassic 

 one ; Tcsniopteris pseudo-vittata, m., closely allied to T. 

 vittata from the Eui-opean Trias flora; Asplenium hocJistetteri, 

 Ung., sp. ; Palissya j^odocarjyioides, m., analogous to P. 

 braunii, Endl. ; Baiera australis, m., also corresponding to a 

 European species of that flora; phyllodes of Thinnfeldia 

 australis, m., and of Protocladus lingua, m. 



II. At Haast Gully (also Clent Hills) have been found — 

 Sjjhenoptcris amissa, m., S. clentiana, m., Pecopteris proxima, 

 in., Taniopteris pseudo-simplex, m. — all more or less related to 

 Triassic species ; Taniopteris pseudo-vittata, Camptopteris 

 haastii, m., Asplenium hocJistetteri, Equisetiim microdon, Palis- 

 sya podocarpioides, and Baiera australis. 



III. Malvern Hills II. (not to be confounded with the 

 above-named Tertiary locality, Malvern Hills No. I.). Peco- 

 pteris proxima, m., TcBniopteris lomariopsis, m., both related to 

 Triassic species; AspAenium palao-darea, m., A. hocJistetteri, 

 Podozamitesvialvcrnicus, m., and Protocladus lingua, have been 

 collected here. 



IV. Mataura ; and V. Waikawa. Here have been found — 

 Sphenopteris, Palceopteris, Ung., sp., Hymenophyllites australis, 

 m., Taniopteris pseudo-simplex, T. lomariopsis, AsplcniunL 

 hochstetteri, Macro-tcsniopteris affinis, m., Lycopodites palceo- 

 silaginella, m., Nilssonia zcelandica, m., Zamitcs mataurensis, 

 rn., Pterophylluni dicjjenhachi, m. The fossil plants are well 

 preseiTcd here, and the species bear more or less the facies 

 of those of the Triassic flora. 



In concluding this brief notice, I have to remark that I 

 am unwilhngly compelled to differ from the views expressed 

 by Sir James Hector, and published by him in " New Zealand 

 Com't," Catalogue Indian and Colonial Exhibition, London, 

 1886, p. 60 — namely, tha.t there occur Mesozoic plants in 

 New Zealand, as, for instance, species of Alethopteris, Tanio- 

 pteris, &c., together with leaves of Tertiary Dicotyledons in 

 the same strata. I have not seen any trace of such a con- 

 riection in the rich material the above-mentioned collections 

 offer. Sir James Hector's statement may be based on some 

 mistake : perhaps he has taken specimens of Camptopteris for 

 leaves of Dicotyledons, an eiTor easily possible when tbe 

 specimens are not well preserved.'' 



* The association of AleOwpteris (^Blechnum priscum ?) and Tcenio- 

 pteris in the same slab with dicotyledonous leaves occurs in the collections 

 from Pakawau, Clarence River, and Malvern Hills I., not in the Jurassic 

 strata that yield Camptopteris. The leaves are — Fagus (ninnisiana?), 

 ProtophijUum sp. — J. Hector. 



