248 The Upper Cretaceous Floras of the Would 



Midler, none of the contributors appears to have had any knowledge of 



botany or any acquaintance with paleobotany. The latter student did 



a small amount of admirable work on the fossil fruits of the late Tertiary 



gold drifts. The former did pioneer work on the floras of what he called 



Cretaceous and Eocene. Since his day the age determinations have been 



shifted back and forth. The Eocene floras are now considered Oligocene 



and Miocene. The Cretaceous flora he described may or may not be 



Cretaceous. Ettingshausen deducted certain broad conclusions from his 



studies, the most notable being that as late as the Tertiary the Australian 



flora was not a provincial flora but a part of the cosmopolitan flora. 



Doubtless many of Ettingshausen's determinations are oversanguine and 



his comparisons in general were with European fossil floras rather than 



with existing Australian floras, at the same time it should be pointed out 



that such a statement has a much greater theoretic probability when 



applied to the Cretaceous or Eocene than when applied to the later 



Tertiary. 



The following were included by Ettingshausen ' in the Cretaceous: 



Acrostichum primordiale Ettingshausen 

 Andromeda australiensis Ettingshausen 

 Apocynophyllum warraghianum Ettingshausen 

 Aralia subformosa Ettingshausen 

 Artocarpidium pseudocretaceum Ettingshausen 

 Aulacolepis rhomboidalis Ettingshausen 

 Banisteriophyllum cretaceum Ettingshausen 

 Banksia crenata Ettingshausen 

 Banksia cretacea Ettingshausen 

 Banksia plagioneura Ettingshausen 

 Banksia sublongijolia Ettingshausen 

 Carpolithus eomplanatus Ettingshausen 

 Carpolithus fagiformis Ettingshausen 

 Carpolithus semisulcatus Ettinshausen 

 Carpolithus silicuhrformis Ettingshausen 

 Cassia etheridgei Ettingshausen 

 Cassia prcememnonia Ettingshausen 

 Cassia prcrphaseolitoides Ettingshausen 

 Casuarina primava Ettingshausen 

 Ceratopetalum primigenium Ettingshausen 



1 Ettingshausen, C. von, Beitrage zur Kenntniss c'.er Kreidetiora Australiens. 

 Denks. k. Akad. Wiss. Wein, Bd. lxii, 1895, pp. 1-56, pi. i-iv. 



