Prof. Dr. von Ettingshausen—Tertiary Flora of Australia. 153 
IIl.—A ConrrisutTion to THE TreRTIARY FLorA or AUSTRALIA.) 
By Prof. Dr. Constantin Baron von ErrInGsHAUsSEN, 
Of the University of Graz, Austria. 
(ane series of fossil plants from the Tertiary strata of New South 
Wales and Tasmania, to which these remarks relate, were sent 
to Mr. R. Etheridge, jun., at the British Museum, for examination 
partly by Prof. Liversidge, of Sydney University, and by Mr. C. 5. 
Wilkinson, F.G.S., Government Geologist for New South Wales, whilst 
the remainder already formed a portion of the National Collection. 
I was invited to study and describe these fossil plants during my 
recent visit to London, where Dr. Henry Woodward, the Keeper of 
the Geological Department, kindly placed at my disposal for exam- 
ination all the Australian Tertiary plants preserved in the British 
Museum, whereby my work has been completed. I also had access 
to the necessary materials for comparing the fossil with the recent 
plants in the Botanical Department of the British Museum through 
the kindness of Mr. W. Carruthers, F.R.S.; and to the magnificent 
Botanical Museum at Kew Gardens under the care of Sir Joseph 
Hooker, K.C.S.1., C.B., ete. 
Although I did not underrate the difficulties of the task I had 
undertaken, I have been enabled successfully to investigate the fossil 
plants of the nearly unknown Tertiary flora of Australia, and to 
introduce into palzeo-botanical science the following general results. 
In the first place, however, I have to acknowledge my thanks for the 
valuable help the above-mentioned gentlemen have afforded me. 
The literature of the Tertiary flora of Australia is not extensive. 
Hitherto we have been acquainted with only a small number of 
species, mostly fruits and seeds, described and figured by Baron 
Ferdinand von Mueller in the Reports of the Mining Surveyors and 
Registrars of Victoria for 1871, 1873-78, and in the Annual Reports 
of the Department of Mines of New South Wales for 1876 and 1878. 
A few species were also described by Prof. M‘Coy in Dec. IV. Geol. 
Survey, Victoria, 1876, and mentioned in R. B. Smyth’s Progress 
Report, 1874. 
The species I have described come from the following localities :— 
1.—Dalion, near Gunning, New South Wales. 
The series of fossil plants from this locality have been collected by 
Mr. C. 8. Wilkinson, who sent them to Mr. Etheridge at the British 
Museum. They belong to 27 species, 21 genera, and 17 families. 
‘The species I have under examination are all new; of the genera 
only two (Miconium and Pomaderrites) are new, whilst the others 
occur both in the Tertiary formation of Europe (19), North America 
and North Asia (18), Java (4), Sumatra (3), and Borneo (3). Only 
six of the genera are contained in the living flora of Australia, and 
of these only two belong to the numerous genera which characterize 
this flora. 
oe Being the substance of a paper read before the Imperial Academy of Sciences in 
. Vienna. 
