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genera of bi\al\ es ; Ijut as they are represented by easts, speeitic references are 

 unreliable. They are Nuciila (jiiadrata (?), Aiicflla sp., Pecten sp., j^enus uncertain, 

 cuiiiparabie witii tig. Itj, t. 24, in Jack and Etlieridge's (!eol. of (,)ueens]and. 

 Tlie lea\'es Ijelong to ]\Iai^nolia Bfinviiii. 



Wyeciiliina (on the lliver Clayton). — Plant-bearing beds have been described by 

 Mr. H. Y. L. Ibown as occuriing at this locality. He I'eferred them at first to the 

 period (if tleiiosition of the Leigh Creek coaliield — that is Jurassic, wljicli opinion 

 has since been amended " to probably of Tertiary age."* Among the vegetable 

 remains collected at this place, I recognise leaf-impressions as belonging to AInus 

 Mtielkri and Qiicra/s, spp. 



The association of land-})lants and marine fossils is not inconsistent with the 

 Desert .Sandstone age of the Lake Frome beds, as in the extreme north-east of 

 the vast Cretaceous dep(jsits in <,)'-iC'<?ii''ki'id, coaly layers and marine sediments 

 are interstratitied. Hitherto, the only plant-remains descriptively known from 

 uniloubted Desert iSaiulstone are the ferns Didviiu>si(rns 1 gUic/iciiioidcs and 

 Glossoptcris sp.;t neither one nor the otlier (jccurs in beds of corresponding age in 

 Central Australia. Her(! all the plant species are represented by leaves of 

 exogens, and of these the following, among many others, are referaljle to 

 described species : — 



Magnolia Brownii Ett. 

 Cinnamomum sp. 



Apocynophyllum r^Iackinlayi, Ett. 

 Bombax Sturtii, Ett. 



Eucalyptus Diemenii, Ett. 

 Eucalyptus IMitchellii, Ett. 

 Banksia pregrandis, n.sp. 



Quercus Creyi, Ett. 



(^uercus Wilkinsoni, Ett. 

 Alnus Muelleri, Ett. 



Lake Frome. 

 William Creek. 

 Arcoona. 

 Elizabeth 11. 

 Arcoona. 

 Elizabeth 11. 

 Bottle Hill. 

 Elizabeth W. 

 Arcoona. 

 AVyeculuna. 

 Wyeculuna. 

 Wyeculuna. 



The ilora here indicated is analogous with that at VcgeLalile Cieck and 

 Dallon, described by Baron \(in Ettingshausen, t and on paheontologic ground has 

 been regarded liy iiiiii as l*]ocene. The same type of Ilora is preserved at various 



* Pari, rapur, Xo. 141, \i'A, p. J. 



t Jack and Ktlicnil;,'f, Geol. (iueeiisld. , pp. 567-559, IS'.)-. 



\ "Contributions to the Tertiary Flora of .Viistralia." Mem. (k'lil. Suri. X. S. Walu.s, ISSS. 



