Plate A.— LEAF IMPBESSIONS FOUND IN THE 

 TUBEITELLA SANDSTONE BEDS AT TABLE 

 CAPE. 



Fig. 9, 9a, 9b.— Pteris (?) Belli. B. M. Johnston. Imperfect 

 fragments of a small species of fern referred 

 provisionally to the genus Pteris. Frond minute, 

 evidently linear-lanceolate ; pinnate or pinnatifid ; 

 rachis strongly marked ; pinnules simple, minute, 

 ovate, opposite or alternate, attached to rachis by 

 the entire base, gradually reduced in size and 

 more obtusely rounded towards base and apex of 

 frond. 



Figs. 1-6, 8, 8a, 10-13. — Leaf impressions undetermined, 

 associated with Pieris Belli. 



Fig. 7. — Sapolacites oligoneuris.* 

 • ditto. 



Ettingshausen. Ditto, 



Plate B. — Diagram of tertiary beds as exposed in cliffs at 

 Sandy Cove, Table Cape. It is from the upper- 

 most or turritella zone where the leaf impressions 

 were obtained. The marine beds are capped by 

 basalt. 



* This form also occurs in the tertiary leaf beds at One Tree Point and 

 Pipeclay Bluff, near Hobart ; also in similar deposits at Macquarie 

 Harbour.— E. M. J. 



Note. — All figures natural size. 



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