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contain. The species mostly are analogous to Triassic ones. I may 

 therefore not be far wrong in supposing that all the last-named 

 localities belong to the Trias formation. 

 A brief record of their flora follows : — 



I. Mount Potts. Here have been collected : — Equisetum microdon, 

 m., a species corresponding to an European-Triassic one ; Tceniopteris 

 pseiido-vittata, m., closely allied to T. vittata from the European 

 Trias-flora ; Asplemum Hochstetteri, Ung. sp. ; Palissya podocarpoides, 

 m., analogous to P. Braunii, Endl. ; Baiera australis, m., also corre- 

 sponding to an European species of that flora ; Phyllodes of Thinn-' 

 feldia australis, m., and of Protocladus lingua, m. 



II. At Haast Gidly (also called " Glent Hills ") have been found : 

 — Splienopteris amissa, m., S. Clentiana, m., Pecopteris proxima, m., 

 Tmiiopteris pseudo-simplex, ra., all more or less related to Triassic 

 species, Tmniopteris pseiido-vittata, Camptopferis Saastii, m., Asplenium 

 Sochstetteri, Equisetum microdon, Palissya podocarpoides, and Baiera 

 australis. 



III. Malvern Sills II. (not to be confounded with the above- 

 named Tertiary locality Malvern Hills I.). Pecopteris proxima, m., 

 Tceniopteris lomariopsis, m., both related to Triassic species, Asplenium 

 palcBO-darea, m., A. Hochstetteri, Podozamites Malvernicus, m., and 

 Protocladus lingua have been collected there. 



IV. Matura and V. Waihaiva. There have been found :- Splieno- 

 pteris PalcBopteris, Ung. sp., Hymenopliyllites australis, m., Tceniopteris 

 pseudo-simplex, T. lomariopsis, Asplenium IToclistetteri, Macro-Tcenio- 

 pteris affinis, VLi.,Lycopoditespal(BO-selaginella, m., Nilssonia Zeelandica, 

 m., Zamites Mataurensis, ra., Pterophyllum Dieffenhachi, m. The 

 fossil plants are well preserved there, and the species bear more or 

 less the facias of those of the Triassic Flora. 



In concluding this brief notice, I have to remark that I am unwill- 

 ingly compelled to disagree with the view expressed by Sir James 

 Hector, and published by him in " New Zealand Court," Catalogue 

 Indian and Colonial Exhibition, London, 1886, p. 60, namely, that there 

 occur Mesozoic plants in New Zealand, as, for instance, species of Ale- 

 tliopteris,T(Bniopteris, etc., together with leaves of Tertiary Dicotyledons 

 in one and the same strata. I have not seen any trace of such a con- 

 nexion in the rich material the above-mentioned collections offer. 

 Sir James Hector's statement may be based on some mistake ; perhaps, 

 he has taken specimens of Camptopteris for leaves of Dicotyledons, an 

 error easily possible when the specimens are not well preserved. 



leZEVIE^WS. 



I. — A Popular Guide to the Geology of the Isle of Wight, 

 WITH A Note on its Eelation to that of the Isle of Purbeok. 

 By Mark W. Norman. 8vo. pp. 240, Map, Sections, and 15 

 Plates of Fossils. (Ventnor, 1887.) 



ME. MAEK NOEMAN, who some years ago contributed a 

 paper on the Greensand formation of the Isle of Wight 

 to the Geological Magazine, now presents us with a popular 



