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MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 



Following are some notes on sub-fossil species : — 



(a) E. obliqua L'Herit. 



See McCoy in K. B. Smyth " Keport of Progress of the Geol. Survey Vict." 

 (Melb. imp., 8vo., vol. i, pp. 30 and 36, 1874; hi, 48, 1876.) 



"At Haddon, in what appear to be older drifts, we find a different flora ; and at 

 Malmesbury and Daylesford, intercalated between the flows of lava, or resting on 

 Silurian rocks, but covered with newer volcanic rocks, there are mudstones and mud-shales 

 full of the leaves of a species of Eucalyptus."' 



" In the mud forming the beds of old lakes and covered with newer volcanic 

 rock, there are in Victoria numerous impressions of leaves of myrtaceous plants 

 resembling those of the Eucalyptus obliqua. . . ." 



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(b) E. amygdalina Labill. (?). 

 Redruth Ironstone, near Casterton, Victoria. Probably Miocene. 



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"... good imprints of Eucalyptus leaves of the E. amygdalina type. . 

 (Chapman, p. 130.) 



(c) E. melliodora A. Cunn. (?), and E. piperita Sm. (?). 



Fossil wood from the Miocene and Pliocene forests of Victoria. 



" Eucalyptus cf. melliodora A. Cunn., from Bruthen, and E. aff. piperita Sm,, 

 from Mallacoota Inlet. Their microscopic structure is wonderfully preserved, although 

 occasionally broken down by chalcedonic crystallisation, probably where the tissue 

 was already partially decayed when petrification took place." (Chapman, p. 131.) 



(d) Eucalyptus spp. 



Newer Volcanic tuffs. " At Warrnambool Volcanic tuff occurs, containing 

 impressions of Eucalyptus leaves." (Chapman, p. 131.) 



