VICTORIA 
In Victoria the series of plant-bearing beds is not as complete and so 
rich in fossils as in New South Wales, though there are, on the other hand, 
enough interesting relations, especially with regard to the correlation of the 
various beds in the provinces. 
I shall at first quote the necessary literature, so as to he able to con- 
strue! properly the sequence of the strata. 
Literary Review. 
(1.) I860. Selwyn (A. R. C.) Notes oil the Geology of Victoria. Quart. Joum. Qeol. Sor., 
Vol. XVI, j op. 145, 4'c. 
We read respecting the coal-heds (p. 147) : — “ I have not yet been able 
to obtain more satisfactory evidence respecting the probable age of our coal- 
bearing rocks ; if the mass of them be Oolitic there are certainly others in 
the eastern districts of the Colony which contain true Carboniferous plants.” 
(2.) 1862. M‘Coy (Prof. F.) Notes on the Ancient and Eecent Natural History of Victoria. 
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., t~ol. IX, "3rd Ser .,pp. 137-150. 
This ‘paper contains a discussion of the various rock groups in Victoria. 
From the Upper Palaeozoic strata he mentions a Lepidodendron , which 
sufficiently establishes the Palmozoic character of these beds. 
(3.) 1868. M‘Coy (Prof. F.) Palaeontology of Victoria. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Tot. xx, pp. 
109-202. 
The coal-bearing rocks of Victoria are here described as Mesozoic ; 
but in Gippsland, on the Avon River, where Lepidodendron was found, there 
the older coal formation may be represented. 
(4.) 1866. Selwyn (A. R. C.) and Ulrich (G, H. F.) Notes on the Physical Geography 
and Mineralogy of Victora. International 'Exhibition Essays, 1806. 8 vo. Melbourne, 1SG6. 
There is a clear distinction made between certain beds of the Bacchus 
M arsh Scries (with ferns) and those on the Avon River with Lepidodendron . 
Selwyn writes (p. 1G) : — “ Mount Tambo, Avon River (Gippsland), Mansfield, 
and Bacchus Marsh are the only localities where fossil plants have yet been 
found; and in two only of these, Avon River and Bacchus Marsh, are the 
specimens sufficiently perfect to he clearly identified ; from the former 
Lepidodendron, and from the latter Cyclopteris, or Gangamopteris longifolius 
(M‘Coy) — the former certainly palaeozoic, and the latter probably triassic or 
lower mesozoic.” Selwyn also describes, from several localities, a peculiar 
