PUocene TeTtiary.-\ PALEONTOLOGY OF VICTOEIA. \_Flants. 



it to Plutus, the god of riches, as a reminder of the association of 

 this form with our rich gold leads. 



Extremely abundant in the Pliocene Tertiary purplish argilla- 

 ceous sti-ata of the gold leads at Daylesford. 



Explanation op Figures. 



Plate XXXIX. — Fig. 1, various average leaves, one showing the petiolate hase, and one 

 ahnormally bent, natural size. Fig. 2, slab showing the long narrow adult form and the younger 

 broader leaves. Fig. 3, short broad sapling form of leaf. Fig. 2a, magnified, venation and oil 

 glands of middle of average adult leaf on right hand edge of fig. 2. Fig. 4, magnified venation 

 of corresponding portion of leaf of the living Eucalyptus globulus. 



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