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The absence of Zeugophyllites elongatus, Morris, Alethopteris , 
Australis, Morris, and of the various species of Sphenopteris 
and Phyllotheca is here worthy of special notice, so far as 
the beds containing the above species are concerned. This is 
specially remarkable as Strezelecki positively states ( p. 128 
“Physical Description of N.S.W. and V.D.L.’’) that in a section 
of a well sunk at the locality of London Inn, near to the beds 
referred to, he discovered Alethopteris Australis and 
Zeugophytlites overlying a seam of coal. 
York Plains Coal Beds. 
Zeugophyllites, elongatus, Morris, abundant. 
Phyllotheca, Australis, Brong., common. 
Phyllotheca, ramosa, M’Coy, common. 
Phyllotheca, Hookeri, M’Coy, abundant. 
Thinnfeldia obtusifolia, abundant. 
Alethopteris Australis Morris, very abundant. 
Pecopteris caudata (2), Johnston, common. 
Sphenopteris sp , common. 
Longford Coal Beds (Mason’s Seam). 
Zeugophyllites elongatus, Morris, abundant. 
Phyllotheca Hookeri, M’Coy, common. 
Alethopteris Australis, Morris, common. 
Pecopteris caudata, Johnston, common. 
Teniopteris Morrisiana, Johnston, rare. 
PLANTAE. 
Cuass Acrogrens. (Al Lycopodales.) 
Ord. Marsileaceae (?). 
VERTEBRARIA (Royle). 
Gen. Char.—Stem slender, surrounded by densely aggre- 
gated whorls of verticillate, cuneiform leaves, having a 
dichotomous neuration. 
VERTEBRARIA AUSTRALIS (M‘Coy). 
Sp. chav.—Leaves constantly eight in each whorl. 
Localities.—TasMAnta (2). N.S. Wates—Mulimbimba. 
References.—M ‘Coy, Annals Nat. Hist., 1847, XX., p. 147, t. 
f. 1; ibid, Proc. Roy. Soc., V.D. Land, 1851, I., p. 304, t. 9, f. 
R. Etheridge, jun., Cat. Aust. Fossils, 1878, p. 101. 
HQuISsETUM. 
Fructificationes in spicam ovato-oblongam digeste. Singula 
orbiculata basi dehiscens pluribus valvulis, apice plano peltato 
connexis. 
The definition of Schimper (Paleontologie vegetale, vol i., 
p. 259), remedies this:—It is Fructus spicaeformis cylindraceus 
oblongus, sew ovatus, sporangiorum receptaculis peltoidis. 
Folia in vaginam connata. (Tenison-Woods). 
PHYLLOTHECA. 
Gen. Ohar.—Stem slender, jointed, simple, or branched ; 
branches springing from above the joints, not arranged in 
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