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appear to show that tho first is a true Percoid, and the second 

 probably the same ; while there can be no longer any doubt that 

 Bhacolepis is a physostomous fish, having its nearest living ally in 

 the clupeoid genus Elops.'- It may also be added that Beryx niger, 

 Costa,^ from the Cretaceous of Mount Lebanon, is undoubtedly a 

 Fycnosterinx} 



VII. — On the Tertiary Flora of Australia. 



By Dr. Constantin Baron von Ettingshausen, F.C.G.S., 

 Professor of Botany, University of Graz, Austria. 



ME. C. S. WILKINSON, Government Geologist for New South 

 Wales, had the kindness to entrust his collection of Australian 

 Tertiary plant-remains to me, for which I now express my most 

 sincere thanks to him. I laid the results of my investigations before 

 the Imperial Academy of Sciences of Vienna, in a Memoir, entitled : 

 " Contributions to the Tertiary Flora of Australia, Part II.," which 

 follows a Memoir already published under the same title. Part I., in 

 the forty-seventh volume of the " Denkschriften " of the same 

 Academy. 



It is highly satisfactory to me that the general results I obtained 

 from my first efforts were not alone strengthened, but materially 

 completed by the second Part. The 128 species of fossil plants 

 described and figured in it mostly come from Vegetable Creek, near 

 Emmaville, in New England, N. S. W. Twenty-one species have 

 been collected from Elsmore, and only five species from Tingha, in 

 New England. Mr. Wilkinson, who has examined these localities, 

 referred them to the Lower Tertiary formation. The species are 

 distributed into 36 orders and 72 genera. Of the former 35, and of 

 the latter 52, are also represented in the Tertiary Flora of Europe. 

 Kespecting the principal sections of the Vegetable Kingdom the 

 Cryptogams contain 2 species, the Gymnospermae 12, the Monoco- 

 tyledons 2, the ApetalEe 56, the Gamopetalas 11, and the Dialypetalee 

 4.0. Of the orders represented by several species, the Proteaceae 

 contain 20 species, the Cupuliferte 14, the ConiferEe 11, the Myrtaceas 

 10, the LaurinejB 7, the Leguminosae 6, whereas the Morese, Apocy- 

 nace£e, and Celastrineee contain 5 species each. 



The results respecting the character of the Flora confirm Mr. 

 Wilkinson's statement. We cannot find any reason for supposing 

 the above-named localities to be difi'erent in age. It is at first 

 sight evident that the character of their flora (especially of that 

 of Vegetable Creek and of Elsmore) deviates strikingly from the 

 character of the living Australian Flora. According to the latter 

 difference, which indicates a greater divergence of age between both 

 these floras, as well as regarding the close relationship of some 



1 Smitli Woodward, " On tlie Fossil Teleostean Genus Rhaeolepis,''' Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. June 23rd, 1887. 



* 0. G. Costa, " Descrizione dl alcuni Pescl fossUi del Libano," Mem. R. Acad. 

 Sci. Napoli, vol. ii. 1855, p. 100, pi. ii. fig. 1. 



3 Pictet and Humbert, " Nouv. Eech. Poiss. Foss. Liban," p. 43. 



