82 ON THE WAIANAMATTA SHALES. 
so well preserved. However, a careful search, aided by some — 
experience in Australian fossil plants, has enabled me to identify — 
the sthowieig fossils in the localities given :— 
Fossil Flora of the Shale. 
hopteris (Pecopteris) australis, Morr. oe Saeco Hill 
Paha eth oaeeg Morr. i. ... Kenny’s Hill 
Be aad concinna, Tenison a “Ke ... Mount She 
a tes distans Steal vee io OU eek 
Podomanives sp. at ves MA hs ... Sugarloaf Hill 
Gleichenia ? ek Sugarloaf Hill 
Micietametantenis waianamatte, Feistm.. ... Kenny’s Hill 
Hawkesbury Sandstone. 
Alethopteris australis, Morr. vise Ske . Mount Victoria 
Thinnfeldia odo ontopter oides, Morr. Nis Mount Mh rage & Dubbo 
hinnfeldia ear Tenison-Woods 
Phyjllotheca sp? . Mount Victoria, Woolloo 
Podozamites distans! ss .. Woollo pee —~ 
Gleichenia dubia, Te di ... Mount Victoria 
Macroteniopteris Jueutties Feist. hk ... Mount Victoria 
e above are the species which have been identified with 
ethan’ nty, but there can be no doubt that the general characte 
of the fossils is the same, and only the mode of preservation 8 
Dr. Feistman 
different. tel_has pointed out that the formations 
n the lists above given I have adhered 
nearly to those forms which I have identified myself, because it 
former enumerations I am inclined to think that not sufficient 
-attention was paid to — the fossils were taken from the 
‘sandstone or shale. Moreover, I think that the limits of what 
observer regarded as belonging to one formation was not acce 
in an opposite sense by others. 
But there is one other place where the palwontological identity 
soz0ic 
carbonaceous shales of Victoria, at Gisdbong, Cape Otwa) 
Victoria, é&c.'; they also have the closest relations with ‘ne J urassi¢ 
plant beds of India, of Siberia, and Yorkshire in England ; 
which we may conclude that in ‘Australia the Lower Jura 1s 
hey and that our Hawkesbury rocks and shales belong * io 
