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In addition to these there are three species recorded from 
Langenberg near Quedlinburg *:— 
Weichselia Ludovice, Stiehler = W. Mantelli (Brong ). 
Pterophyllum Ernestine, Stiehler. 
Pandanus Similde, Stiehler. 
In a recent communication from Struckmann? on the strata 
between the ‘‘Hilsthon’” and Wealden of North Germany, it 
is pointed out that in England the brackish water-deposits at 
the end of the Jurassic period seem to have continued for a 
longer time than in North Germany; and this author suggests 
that the Wealden should be regarded not as a distinct formation, 
but as a facies, consisting of brackish water-deposits at the close 
of the Jurassic period, and which, in some places, extended to 
the Chalk. 
AUSTRIA. 
Ettingshausen in 1852 described a number of fossil plants from 
Zsbing and a few other localities, from beds considered to be of 
Wealden age ; many of the species being identical with Wealden 
plants of Northern Germany. The following species are recorded 
from these plant-bearing beds * :— 
Confervites setaceus, Ett. Teniopteris Zibingiana, Ett. = ? Frag- 
Sargassites Partschii, Ett. ment of Newropteris. 
Spherococites chondrieformis, Ett. Cycadites Brongniarti, Roem. 
Equisetites Burchardti, Dunk. Pterophyllum Buchianum, Ett. 
Oyclopteris squamata, Ett. P. nervosum, Ett. 
C. Mantelli, Dunk. = ? Sagenopteris | Culmites priscus, Ett. 
Mantelli (Dunk.). | Thuites Hoheneggeri, Ett. 
Sphenopteris Mantelli, Brong.=Ony- | Araucarites Dunkeri, Ett. 
chiopsis Mantelli (Brong.). A. curvifolius, Ett. 
Alethopteris recentior, Ett.=? Weich- | Carpolithes Lindleyanus, Dunk. 
selia Mantelli (Brong.). C. rostellatus, Ett. 
In 1871 Schenk discusses the plants and geologic age of the 
Wernsdorfer beds at some length; from an examination of the 
flora he concludes that these Carpathian rocks are nearer in age 
1 Flor. subhercyn. Kreid. p. 14. 
2 Jahrb. k. preuss. geol. Landesanst, 1889, p. 54. 
3 Abh. k.-k. geol. Reichs. vol. i. Abth. iii. No. 2, 1862, p. 1. 
