The Fossil Plants. 
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Equisetacece : 
Phyllotheca Australis. 
Equisetum. X 
Cycadacece : 
Podozamites lanceolatis. 
Otozamites. 
Coni ferae : 
Jeanpaulia palmata — See Figure 9. 
Subsequently referred to as Salisburia palmata .* 
Schizoneura Australis. 
Cleandridium lentriculiformis— See Figure 3. 
Ottelia praeterita. t 
Sheath-wings of Coleoptera have been found associated with 
these plants. 
These might be described as the flora of the 
thickets and swamps. Of the trees of the uplands we 
knownothing. The carbonaceous character of the shales 
is evidence that plants flourished in great profusion. 
We have vast beds of shale, and every layer reveals 
imprints of numberless specimens. The description 
given by Winchell would apply in every line to our 
fossiliferous shales. Each bedding plane is covered 
with “ inimitable representations of the delicate fronds 
of ferns. We remove a scale of the rock, and behind 
is still another picture. Remove a second, and from 
the dark black rock gleams forth another form of 
grace and beauty. The whole mass of the slialy roof 
is a portfolio of inimitable sketches. The sharpest 
| Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales (2nd Scries), Vol. V., plate XVII. 
>' ” »» a Yol. II., p. 137. 
t lloyal Society, N.S.W., 1879, p. 95. 
