THE GLOSSOPTERIS FLORA. 187 



Miwee beds. — The marine strata containing typical Car- 

 boniferous fossil shells are of particular importance from the 

 point of view of the correlation of Indian and Australian 

 boulder deposits. The boulder beds of Bacchus Marsh in 

 Victoria are also of the same geological age ; they contain 

 few plant remains, but a species of Gangaviopteris has been 

 recorded identical with one from the Talchir-Karharbari 

 beds. From the Lower Coal Measures of New South 

 Wales, that is the strata intercalated between the marine 

 beds containing typical Carboniferous fossil shells, the 

 following plants are known : — 



Phyllotheca ai/stralis, McCoy. Glossopteris Bro2vma?ta,'Exono.^2in6. 



Annularia aiistralis^ Feist. three other species. 



Nxggerathiopsis prisca. Feist. 



In the Newcastle beds, which agree in age with the 

 Damuda series of India, several species of plants have 

 been found, e.g. : — 



Phyllotheca aiistralis, McCoy. Glossopteris Brozvniana., Brong., and 



Vertebraria aitstralis, McCoy. other species. 



Sphenopteris alata, Brong., and Ga?igamop/eris aiigusii folia, McCoy. 



other species. Etc. 



The Hawkesbury and Wianamatta beds need not be 

 dealt with as they are referred to a higher horizon than that 

 which more especially concerns us at present. The occur- 

 rence of rocks older than the Muree series is referred to 

 later. In Queensland a series of strata occurs resting un- 

 conformably on Devonian Rocks ; they have been classified 

 as follows and referred to a Permo-Carboniferous aee : — 



Upper Bowen. 

 Middle Bowen. 

 Lower Bowen. 

 Star Series. 

 Gympie Series. 



The flora of the two lowest series is " in no way allied 

 to that which is found in the three succeeding divisions, but 

 possesses a decidedly Carboniferous facies, the distinguish- 

 ing plant being Lepidodendron ".^ From the Bowen River 



^ Jack and Etheridge, p. 70. 



