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more obtuse. These attributes cannot be taken as a difference 

 of species, because the position and angle of the segments in 

 various parts of the frond show httle difference, while in the 

 Uving species named the lower parts of the frond, with which 

 the fossil corresponds, show similar alterations. 



PHANEROGAM.^. 



GYMNOSPERMvE. 



Cycade^. 

 Zamites, sp. 



• Plate XXIV., fig. 10. 



Among the numerous fossil remains from Shag Point I 

 found only one fragment which I believe I may regard as a re- 

 mainder of a Gycadca. It probably represents a frond which is 

 bent upwards, and is traversed by fine parallel-running nei'ves. 

 The fragment is longitudinal, and the edge is without notches. 

 To judge from the coal-substance, the texture must have been 

 a very compact one, such as exists in the leaves of the 

 Cycadca. The fragment mentioned shows, as regards length 

 and delicate stripes, some agreement with the leaves of re- 

 mains of Cycadca: described by von Heer as Zamites tcr- 

 tiarius. 



CONIFEEiE. 



CuPKESSINEiE. 



I defined a fragment of a small branch from Shag Point as 

 belonging to Gallitris in consequence of its characteristics, and 

 it seems to denote the existence of this family among the 

 fossil flora of New Zealand. The fragment is, however, 

 bOO imperfectly preserved to enable me to define a species 

 from it. I am content to mention this circumstance, and leave 

 it to future researches to follow it up. 



Taxodium distichum eocenicum, milii. 

 Plate XXIV., fig-;. 11, llo. 



T. ramulis caducis tcnuibiis ; foliis distantibus altcrnis dis- 

 tichis, lineari-lanccolatis ahhrcviatis planis, nniuerviis, basi 

 angustata sessilibns. 



Locality: Shag Point (Canterbury Museum). [i'J.r Coll. 

 Geol. Surv. N.Z., Rep. 1872; v. Haast, I.e.] 



The small branch of a Conifer shown in fig. 11 agrees so 

 much with the drooping branches of Taxodium distichum that 

 r have no hesitation in placing it in this species, which is so 

 widely scattered througliout the Tertiary period ; but I believe 

 that this small branch belongs to a peculiar variety, which is 



