Notices of Memoirs — Notes on Fossil Plants. 
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II. — Notes on Fossil Plants. 
[Communicated by Count Marschall, C.M.G.S., etc.] 
1 . Sandstones of Gröden, between Neumarkt and Mazzon , South Tyrol. 
(Imp. Geol. Instit. Vienna, Meeting Januavy 9, 1877.) 
niHE strata liere are horizontal in a kill, at the summit of wliich is 
1 Mazzon. Beginning with the lowest beds (near Neumarkt, at 
the foot of the hill), Nos. 1, 3, and 5 are grey and red sandy and 
argillaceous beds of the “ Gröden Sandstone ” ; 2. White sandstones, 
with vegetable remains ; 4. Subordinate beds of grey shales, witli 
vegetable remains ; 6. Yellow dolomitic strata, partly oolitic and 
glaueonitic, and white compact limestones, interspersed with rnala- 
chite ; 7. “ Seisser beds,” on wliich Mazzon is situate. 
The plant-remains in No. 2 are indeterminable stems and trunks, 
with carbonized bark, well preserved and large stobili (of Voltzia 
Hungarica?), branckes with acicular leaves, fronds of Ferns, and 
here and there some few Calamites. The very friable bed No. 4 
includes perfectly preserved bracts, acicular leaves, short branches, 
and strobili. 
Altogether the facies of tliis Flora is Triassic, like that of the 
“ Roth ” Flora of Zweikrücken. On closer investigation, however, 
these Flone do not possess one species in common. Professor 
Schimper thinks the Flora under notice to be probably of Permian 
age. Almost all the species are identical with tkose of Fünfkirchen 
in Hungary, which, according to Prof. Heer, are of Post-carboni- 
ferous or Upper Dyasic age. The branches and strobili of Voltzia 
Hungarica prevail in number ; with them occur Baiera digitata, 
Heer, Ullmanr.ia Bronni, Heer, Ullm. Geinitzi, Carpolithes, fronds of 
Ferns, Calamites (or Equisetites) , Lingula sp., some few Fish- 
scales, etc. 
More or less frequent and distinct fragments of Voltzia Hungarica 
have been found at several places in the Tyrol, a fact worthy of notice, 
as, at these localities, the typical black Belleropkon-limestones (re- 
presented near Neumarkt by yellow dolomitic rocks) rest imme- 
diately on the strata containing plant-remains. The most frequent 
Foraminifera in the Bellerophon-limestones are Cornuspirida, es- 
pecially a form near Endoihyra. 
2. On some Bheetian Plants from Pälsjö, South Steeden. — By Dr. 
Nathokst. 
(Imp. Geol. Instit. Vienna, Meeting Januavy 23, 1877.) 
Dr. R. H. Natliorst lately presented to the Imperial Geological 
Institute of Vienna a collection of fossil plants from Pälsjö. The 
species represented in it are —Spiropteris, sp., Illiizomopteris Schenkt, 
Nath., Cladophlebis Nebbensis, Brong., Gutlieria angustiloba, Presl, 
Dictyophyllum Muensteri (Gopp.), Nath., Nilssoni. Brong., Nilssonia 
polymorpha, Schk., Anomozamites gracilis, Nath., Podozamites distans, 
Presl, Palissya Bräunt. Endl., Schizolepis Follini, Nath., Pinites Lund- 
greni, Nath. (a well-preserved Strobilus), and Swedenborgia crypto- 
merides, Nath. In a letter to Prof. D. Stur, Dr. Natliorst observes 
concerning these remains : — Phizomopteris Schenkt is undoubtedly 
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