re ae es * f i - hi : te. 
FOSSIL PLANT FORMATION IN CENTRAL QUEENSLAND. | 
voleanic rocks, and consequently do not crop out on the sur- 
over such districts * * * In the higher members of this 
which from their general analogy to the English group of 
that name we will term Devonian, specimens of fossil plants are 
_ 4Sbundantly met with.” Mr. Carruthers, F.R.S., has described anc 
_ ihamed from three widely separated localities—Mount Wyatt, 
Canoona, and the Broken River—and refers them all to one 
form, Lepidodendron nothum, Unger (not Salter’s species of that 
name). To the same paper Mr. Carruthers added an appendix in — 
which the fullest details of the plant were given. He states that t 
a pee of Mr. Daintree were so full and a and so 
_ Much more perfect than any previously at the disposal of palwon- 
tologists, that he was able & ate a dental of the whole plant . 
and clear up every doubtful point of its structure. . 
These are sometimes overlaid by coal measures, sometimes 
‘took them for the fleshy leaves of some horizontal 
