Summary Review of the Plant-bearing Strata isj New South 
Wales and their Age. 
From the foregoing literary sources on New South Wales avc may 
construct the following series of rocks in which plant fossils are found. I 
shall observe here the ascending order, because in this way it will be easier 
to fix with probability the age of the various rocks. I shall also enumerate 
with each division the hitherto described fossil plants, as well as the fresh- 
water or land animals. We have, thus, in ascending order : — 
1. Silurian Beds, containing Silurian marine animals, but also, accord- 
ing to Prof, de Koninck’s quotation, a plant, Sphirophyton cciuda-pJiasiani , 
from Duntroon. Age — Silurian. 
2. GS-conoo Goonoo Bads (also Mount Lamhie and Murrumbidgee Series), 
containing marine Devonian animals at Mount Lambic, near Bowenfels, and 
on the Murrumbidgee Liver. These fossils have been described bv Prof, de 
Koninck (No. 39), and arc enumerated in Appendix XV of Mr. W. 13. 
Clarke’s work (No. 38). 13ut there are also plants from these strata, viz., 
Lap telodendron nol/nim, Ung., Goonoo Cfoonoo, Back Creek Diggings, &c. ; 
Cyclostigma , sp., Goonoo Goonoo. 
The localities are: — Cowra and Canowindra, on the Lachlan Liver; 
Mount Lamhie, near Bowenfels ; Goonoo Goonoo, on the Beel Liver ; the 
Back Creek Diggings, on the Barrington Liver. 
In 187(1 and 1877 Mr. Clarke, as I shall mention again, discovered 
the Lcpidudcndron noth am, at Mount Lamhie, in situ, below the level of the 
Brachiopod sandstone of the same locality, thus proving that it belonged to 
the same Devonian Series, which fact was doubted by some authors.'* Age — 
Upper Devonian. 
3. Lepidoclendron Beds, at several localities, especially to the north 
of the Hunter Liver, in the Newcastle Coal-field, viz. : — Port Stephens, 
Smith’s Creek near Stroud, Loucliel Liver, Arowa. The fossils are : — 
Catamites radiates, Bgt. Smith’s Creek, near Stroud. 
,, vamans, Germ, (quoted by De Koninck). 
Sphcnophyllum, sp. Port Stephens. 
* [The passage referred to here, in Mr. Clarke’s “Sedimentary Formations of New South Wales,” is on 
the first reading a somewhat misleading one. The expression “below the level” must not be taken in a strati- 
graphioal sense, but simply as indicating a lower position as regards the conformation of the ground. The 
Government Geologist distinctly wishes it to be understood that the Lcpidodcndron in (piestion occurs in beds 
above the Brachiopod sandstone of Mount Lamhie, be having been present with the late Rev. Mr. Clarke wh^n 
the observations were made— a fact which very much weakens Dr. Feistmantel’s argument. — R.E., jnr, 
