84 NOTES ON THE OCCURRENCE OF A FOSSIL TREE. 



Silurian type, partly embedded in the till between 

 Woody Hill and Table Cape. At the present time I can 

 find only two of them remaining, the rest, as I am in- 

 formed, having been broken up for use as road metal ! 



As a postscript to this paper I have to report the 

 receipt from Mr. Twelvetrees, Government Geologist, 

 to whom I had sent specimens of the fossil tree, of a 

 letter in which he says that " the Avood seems to be 

 Tertiary. It is filled with marcasite, which has decom- 

 posed largely to iron oxide, and it is now highly ferru- 

 ginous." Mr. Twelvetrees also encloses a note from 

 Mr. H. H. Scott, of the Victoria Museum, Launceston, 

 who says of one of the specimens that " it proved, upon 

 microscopical examination, to be a fairly fine-grained 

 pine. Much of the structure was obscured, but the pre- 

 sence of pyrites here and there gilded some of the tis- 

 sues and left the details visible." Mr. Scott also sug- 

 gests that from the arrangement of the " bordered pits " 

 the tree appears to have belonged to the larger division 

 of the pines, and not the more ancient Araucarian sec- 

 tion." 



