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EXPLANATION OF FOSSIL FIGURES. 



No. 1. — Fossil leaf of the cinnamon type ; natural size. Locality : 

 Stevenson's Bend. 



No. 2. — Section of fossil nut ; natural size. Locality : 

 Stevenson's Bend. 



No. 3. — Fossil impression of the pinna, of a fern closely re- 

 sembling the existing Lomaria ; natural size. Locality : Steven- 

 son's Bend. 



No. 4. — Impression of the inner face of the ba^k of a fossil 

 Banksia ; natural size. Locality : Stevenson's Bend. 



Nos. 5 and 6. — Fossil impression of a fern having a close re- 

 semblance to the frond of an existing Trichomanes or Adiantum ; 

 natural size. Locality : Stevenson's Bend. 



No. 7. — Fossil impression of a leaf from the stratified tuff over- 

 lying the lignites at Breadalbane ; natural size. 



Nos. 8 and 9. — Fossil impressions of leaves from the Lower Zone 

 arenacious clays, Breadalbane, and closely associated with the 

 lignites there ; natural size. 



No. 10. — Transverse section of a small branch of a fossil Banksia, 

 showing the mode in which the medullary rays are arranged ; 

 natural size. Locality : Corra Lynn. 



No. 11. — Vertical section of the same magnified 350 diameters, 

 to show the pitted duct. 



No. 12. — Transverse section ditto, showing the arrangement of 

 the large porous vessels ; magnified 50 diameters. 



No. 13. — Vertical-tangential section, ditto, showing large bundles 

 of medullary rays ; magnified 50 diameters. 



No 14. — Transverse section of an undetermined wood from the 

 lignites, Breadalbane ; magnified 50 diameters. 



No. 14a.— Fossil leaf impression ; natural size. Locality : 

 Stevenson's Bend. 



No. 15. — Vertical-tangential section of ditto ; magnified 50 

 diameters. 



No. 16. — Vertical tangential section of a fossil pine ; magnified 

 50 diameters. 



No. 17. — Transverse section of ditto ; magnified 350 diameters. 



No. 18. — Vertical section of ditto, showing glandular ducts, 

 magnified 350 diameters. Locality : Longford gravel beds. 



No. 19. — Transverse section of an undetermined fossil wood, 

 from the agglomerates at Corra Lynn ; magnified 50 diameters. 



No. 20. — Vertical- tangential section of ditto, showing elongated 

 bundles of medullary rays composed of muriform tissue j magni- 

 fied 50 diameters. 



