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HawTcesbury beds." (I explain further on that the quotation of it in 

 the " Newcastle beds " is a mistake.) 



3. Upper Palaeozoic (Clarke, I.e. p. 27). Mr. Clarke distinguishes 

 several subdivisions (see I.e. p. 66). 



a. Upper Coal-measures, or otherwise called Newcastle beds. 

 Localities : Black-man's-swamp, Bowenfels, Guntawang, Mudgee, 



Ulawara, Mulubimba, Newcastle, Wollongong, etc. 



Fossils : Urosthenes australis, Dan. (heterocercal). 



Plants very frequent — mostly : Phylloiheca australis, Brong., 

 Vertebraria (australis, M'Coy), several species of Sphenopteris, 

 several species of Glossopteris (very numerous), one Gangamopteris, 

 Cycadeaceous leaves (Noggerathiopsis and ZeugophjUites) , etc. 



These Coal-beds were considered by Prof. M'Coy as " Oolitic," and 

 Mr. R. Etheridge (I.e.) also classes them as " Mesozoic," while 

 Mr. W. B. Clarke includes them under his heading " Palaeozoic." 

 I myself classed them under the heading " Strata above the 

 marine Fauna," and my belief is, that they are younger than the 

 Lower Coal-measures (below the marine Fauna). 



b. Upper Marine Beds. 



c. Lower Coal-measures. Localities : Anvil Creek, Greta, Harper's 

 Hill, Eix's Creek, Stony Creek, etc., with Phylloiheca, several 

 species of Glossopteris, 1 and Noggerathiopsis. Also an Annularia. 



Localities : Arowa, Port Stephens and Smith's Creek, with "Lower 

 Carboniferous plants," as Calamites radiatus, Brong., Sphenophyllum 

 sp., Hhacopteris comp. ino3quilatera, Gopp., and several other 

 species ; Archceopteris, Cyclostigma australe, Fstm., Lepidodendron 

 Vollcmannianum, Sternb., Lep. Veltheimianum, Sternb., etc. Also 

 a Glossopteris. 2 



d. Lower Marine Beds. 



4. Middle Palceozoic. — Devonian strata, of Goonoo-Goonoo, on the 

 Peel River and Back Creek diggings, on the Barrington Eiver, with 

 Lepidodendron nothum, Ung. (Carr.), and Cyclostigma, sp. 



Equivalents : The Devonian beds of Queensland, with the same 

 fossil plants. 



III. Victoria. 



For the stratigraphy and fossil Flora of the plant-bearing beds in 

 Victoria, we have to consult : — 



M'Coy, Prodromus of a Palaeontology of Victoria, Decades I.-V. 

 (1874-77). 



Brough Smyth, Reports of Progress of the Geol. Survey of 

 Victoria, 1876 et seq. 



1. Upper Mesozoic (Bellarine beds). — Localities : Barrabool Hills, 

 Bellarine, Cape Paterson, Coleraine (Wannon River). 



Fossils (plants) : Phijllotheca australis, Brong., Alethopteris 

 australis, Morr., Tceniopteris Daintreei, M'Coy, and three species of 

 Zamites (partly Podozamites). 



1 Several species described by myself. 



2 This is on the authority of Prof. M'Coy, who quotes from Arowa a Glossopteris 

 linearis, M'Coy, together with an Otopteris ovatu, M'Coy, which, however, is 

 a Rhacopteris, comp. incequilatera, Gopp. 



