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  Proceedings, 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Kirk 
  spoke 
  of 
  the 
  discovery 
  as 
  being 
  of 
  great 
  interest, 
  but 
  was 
  inclined 
  to 
  believe 
  

   the 
  plant 
  would 
  prove 
  identical 
  with 
  an 
  Australian 
  species, 
  notwithstanding 
  its 
  larger 
  

   size. 
  In 
  other 
  parts 
  of 
  New 
  Zealand 
  the 
  natives 
  had 
  traditions 
  that 
  certain 
  trees 
  were 
  

   the 
  paddles 
  or 
  canoe 
  poles 
  which 
  had 
  been 
  fixed 
  in 
  the 
  ground 
  on 
  landing, 
  and 
  had 
  

   taken 
  root 
  ; 
  and 
  as 
  the 
  genus 
  Pomaderris 
  was 
  restricted 
  to 
  Australia 
  and 
  New 
  Zealand, 
  

   he 
  feared 
  that 
  we 
  could 
  not 
  expect 
  to 
  find 
  the 
  plant 
  discovered 
  by 
  Dr. 
  Hector 
  in 
  other 
  

   countries. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Buchanan 
  thought 
  that 
  if 
  the 
  plant 
  was 
  a 
  new 
  species 
  we 
  were 
  as 
  much 
  in 
  the 
  

   dark 
  as 
  ever, 
  and 
  that 
  if 
  it 
  proved 
  to 
  be 
  identical 
  with 
  the 
  Australian 
  species, 
  it 
  would 
  

   upset 
  many 
  pet 
  theories 
  with 
  respect 
  to 
  the 
  " 
  Whence 
  of 
  the 
  Maori." 
  

  

  9. 
  " 
  Notes 
  on 
  some 
  New 
  Zealand. 
  Crustaceans," 
  by 
  T. 
  W. 
  Kirk, 
  Assistant 
  

   in 
  the 
  Colonial 
  Museum. 
  {Transactions, 
  p. 
  401.) 
  

  

  10. 
  " 
  Description 
  of 
  a 
  new 
  Species 
  of 
  Celmisia,''' 
  by 
  J. 
  Buchanan, 
  F.L.S. 
  

   [Transactions, 
  p. 
  427.) 
  

  

  11. 
  "On 
  the 
  Fossil 
  Flora 
  of 
  New 
  Zealand," 
  by 
  Dr. 
  Hector, 
  Director 
  of 
  

   the 
  Geological 
  Survey. 
  

  

  ABSTKACT. 
  

  

  This 
  paper 
  gave 
  a 
  prodromus 
  of 
  a 
  work 
  on 
  the 
  fossil 
  flora 
  of 
  New 
  Zea- 
  

   land, 
  containing 
  descriptions 
  and 
  figures 
  of 
  about 
  a 
  hundred, 
  species. 
  The 
  

   earliest 
  traces 
  of 
  plants 
  found 
  in 
  the 
  New 
  Zealand 
  rocks 
  are 
  in 
  the 
  upper 
  

   Silurian 
  formation, 
  but 
  these 
  and 
  also 
  the 
  plant 
  remains 
  found 
  in 
  the 
  

   Devonian 
  and 
  lower 
  Carboniferous 
  strata 
  are 
  very 
  obscure, 
  and 
  no 
  structural 
  

   features 
  have 
  yet 
  been 
  identified. 
  

  

  The 
  earliest 
  recognized 
  forms 
  are 
  Glossopteris 
  and 
  Schizoneura, 
  which 
  

   occur 
  about 
  the 
  middle 
  of 
  the 
  Kaihiku 
  formation, 
  overlying 
  marine 
  fossils 
  

   that 
  have 
  a 
  mixed 
  Carboniferous 
  and 
  Permian 
  facies. 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  Wairoa 
  formation 
  of 
  Triassic 
  age, 
  fragmentary 
  plant 
  remains 
  are 
  

   abundant. 
  Dammara 
  occurs, 
  the 
  wood 
  having 
  been 
  identified 
  from 
  its 
  

   peculiar 
  structure 
  by 
  Prof. 
  Unger'^' 
  ; 
  also, 
  fronds 
  that 
  are 
  referred 
  to 
  — 
  Zamites 
  

   and 
  Neuropteris. 
  

  

  The 
  next 
  horizon 
  with 
  plants 
  is 
  in 
  the 
  Flag 
  Hill 
  series, 
  which 
  is 
  the 
  

   lower 
  of 
  the 
  three 
  divisions 
  of 
  the 
  Jurassic, 
  and 
  the 
  following 
  forms 
  indicate 
  

   an 
  extension 
  of 
  the 
  Indian 
  flora 
  of 
  the 
  same 
  period 
  far 
  into 
  southern 
  

   latitudes. 
  Macrotcenopteris 
  lata, 
  Palceozamia 
  mataiirienis, 
  Oleandridum. 
  vittatum, 
  

   var., 
  Aletliopteris 
  (two 
  species), 
  Pecopteris 
  (three 
  species), 
  Neuropteris 
  stricta, 
  

   Camptopteris 
  novce-zealandia, 
  Cycadites, 
  and 
  Echinostrohus. 
  A 
  closely- 
  allied 
  

   flora 
  to 
  this 
  re-appears 
  in 
  the 
  Mataura 
  series, 
  which 
  is 
  the 
  upper 
  member 
  

   of 
  the 
  Jurassic 
  formation. 
  

  

  The 
  Neocomian 
  strata 
  (or 
  Amuri 
  series) 
  which 
  are 
  so 
  rich 
  in 
  the 
  remains 
  

   of 
  fossil 
  reptilia, 
  are 
  interesting 
  from 
  their 
  affording 
  the 
  earliest 
  specimens 
  

   of 
  a 
  true 
  Dicotyledonous 
  leaf, 
  associated 
  with 
  the 
  foliage 
  of 
  Dammara 
  and 
  

   xiraucaria, 
  

  

  * 
  Hochstetter's 
  New 
  Zealand, 
  p 
  57. 
  

  

  