44 Notes on the Occurrence of Glaciated Pebbles and 



feeling, which comes over any one that breathes the atmo- 

 sphere of the tunnel for some time, is due to their presence. 

 A curious species of Cantharellus is not uncommon, it is of 

 a brownish-yellow, tinged with a delicate green. In the 

 dark corners behind the posts, bright yellow patches may 

 be perceived ; these are polyporei. A very pretty Agaricus 

 (Mycena) is found at the foot of partly decayed posts, it grows 

 on the dust which crumbles off. In a future paper I propose 

 to deal more systematically with this subject. 



Art. III. — Notes on the Occurrence of Glaciated Pebbles 

 and Boulders in the so-called Mesozoic Conglomerate 

 of Victoria, 



By E. J. Dunn, F.G.S. 



[Eead May 12, 1887.] 



At Wooragee, near Beechworth, there occurs a con- 

 glomerate of peculiar character. In a base of fine clay are 

 distributed in a heterogenous manner, well rounded pebbles 

 and boulders of many varieties of schist, quartz-rock, sand- 

 stones, shales, granite, agate, jasper, porphyry, &c., and also 

 angular and sub-angular fragments and masses of rock. 



The approximate area of this conglomerate was com- 

 municated to the Mining Department in 1871. The depth is 

 not known, but in the very early days of gold mining in this 

 neighbourhood, a shaft was sunk 100 feet into it, at Magpie 

 Swamp, without piercing the underlying rock. This con- 

 glomerate rests either upon granite or silurian beds. 

 Outliers of similar conglomerate occur to the N.W. of 

 El Dorado ; at various points on the road between Wan- 

 garatta and Kilmore ; and are also mentioned by Mr. R. A. 

 F. Murray, in the Geological Survey Progress Report for 

 1884, as existing at Bacchus Marsh, at the Barrabool Hills, 

 and in South Gippsland. In this report, a glacial origin is 

 suggested, as best explaining the peculiarities of this con- 

 glomerate, but no distinct striations had been observed in the 

 pebbles. 



