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42. On the Possil Floea of Sagor, in Caexiola. By Cojs^stantin 

 Baron von Ettii^gshausen, Professor at the University of Graz, 

 Austria. (Read June 24, 1885.) 



Havi^stg recently brought the third and last part of my work on the 

 Possil Flora of Sagor before the Imperial Academy of Sciences in 

 Vienna, I take the liberty of reporting to the Geological Society on 

 the facts which may be considered interesting to the science of 

 Palaeontology, and on the principal results which have been obtained 

 from my investigations upon the subject. The fossil plant- 

 remains which were brought to light, mostly by my method of im- 

 pregnating the stones with water and splitting them by freezing, 

 came from fourteen localities : — 



1. Beds called " Friedhofschichten," beneath the Brown Coal of 

 Sagor. They occur near the churchyard of Sagor, and consist of 

 yellowish-grey indurated clay. They contain many well-preserved 

 plant-remains belonging to 40 species, many of which have also been 

 found at Haring and Sotzka, and in the Lower Tertiary beds of 

 Switzerland. Among the specimens I have examined there are 

 cones of Actinostrohics, seeds of Embothrium leptospermum and 

 Hctkea macropUra, flowers of Celastrus protogceus, fruits of Termi- 

 nalia FenzUana, and leaves of Oon/lus MacQuarrii, Quercus cusjndata, 

 Flcus primceva, Cinnamomum lanceolatum, Grevillea hceringictna, 

 Dodoncea salicites, Zizyphus undidatus, Eucalyptus hceringiana, 

 Dalhergia -primoeva, Ccesalpina Haidingeri^ &c. 



2. Beds called ^ ■ Bachschichteu," near Sagor. These and all the 

 following beds here enumerated lie above the Brown Coal. Their 

 plant-remains indicate a flora which in no respect differs from the 

 fossil flora of the Wetterau, of the Brown-coal formation of the Lower 

 Ehine, and of the Aquitanian Tertiary beds of Switzerland. The 

 "Bachschichten," consisting of dark grey indurated clay, are rich in 

 fossil plants, and a careful investigation of them brought to light a 

 flora of 79 species. Of these are particularly to be named Chondrites 

 laarencioides. DavaUia Haidingeri, Callitris Brongniarti, Sequoia 

 Couttsice, Ostrya atlantidis, Quercus Lonchitis, Ficus lanceolata, Desch- 

 manni, and Langeri, Laurus tristanicefolia^ Sapotacites minor, Cissus 

 Heerii, Zizyphus paradisiacus^ Rhus hydrophila^ Terminalia mio- 

 cenica, Eugenia ApoUinis, Psoralea palceogoea, Palceolohium hetero- 

 phyllum, and Mimosites hceringianus. 



3. Beds called "Tagbau Schichte I." They occur near the smelting- 

 house of the tin-works in Sagor, and consist of yellowish-grey or 

 yellowish-white indurated clay, which is not so rich in fossils as the 

 preceding beds. Of the species to be found there, I may mention 

 Taxodium distichum miocenicum, Sequoia Tou7malii, Pinus hepioSj 

 Myrica deperdita, Fagus Feronice, Pterospeimum, sagorianum, Bur- 

 saria radobojana, Dalhergia valdensis. 



4. Beds called after the " Francisci ErbstoUen," near the Sagor 



