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“ A tree trunk with slender terete branches, cushions or raised scars 
subglobose, pitted, approximate, spirally disposed, impressions oblong oval, 
rather deep, containing in their upper part an oblong ovate tubercle.” 
Obs. — This species differs from the figures of Cyclostigma kiltorlcense % 
in Prof. Heer’s above work, by having upon proportionally thinner branches 
(or stems) larger scars, which are also placed more closely together. With 
regard to the scars themselves, I could not find much difference between 
those of our specimens and those figured in Prof. Ileer’s work. Not feeling, 
however, certain about their identity, I proposed the above name for the 
Australian specimens, which also, as such, are of no small interest, especially 
in combination with the various species of Hhacopteris and Lepidodendron. 
Locality and Horizon. — In the Lower Carboniferous beds at Smith’s 
Creek, Stroud, New South Wales.* 
There are two other specimens of Lycopodiaccous plants, which were 
described by Mr. Johnston, from Tasmania, and which I introduce here 
according to his descriptions. 
Tasman ites ptjnctatus, Newton. 
Tasmanites punctatus, Johnston, loc. cit., 18S5, p. 40. 
,, ,, Johnston, Mem. Tasm. Botanists, 1874, p. 53. 
,, ,, Newton, (leol. Mag., 1875, Yol. II, pp. 337-312, Tab. X, figs. 1-9. 
Tasmanites australis, Johnston, Pamphlet on Tasmanite, or Mersey Yellow Coal, Hobart, 
1877, p. G. 
Sp. Char. — “Bituminous discs (sporangia) minute, rounded, usually 
flattened ; surface, under microscope, ornamented witli minute crateriform 
wings, in the centre of each of which occurs a fine pore or tube, communi- 
cating between the internal and external surface. These tubes are generally 
filled with blackish matter, and appear through the transparent coating of 
sporangium wall as hairs.” 
The peculiar nature of this organism was first described by Mr. John- 
ston in 1874 (loc. cit. above),! where it was described as the spore-cases of 
some ancient tree allied to the existing club-moss family. 
* [The presence of a Cyclostigma in the Smith’s Creek beds, together with Rhacopteris and Lepidodendron, 
which Dr. Feistmantel admits to be of Lower Carboniferous age, rather weakens the great weight attached to the 
occurrence of this genus in the Goonoo Goonoo series, as assisting to prove the Devonian age of the latter. — 
R. E., jun.] 
f [It was pointed out by other observers long before Mr. Johnston commenced his researches. The above 
bodies were shown to be sporangia by the late Prof. J. II. Balfour in 1857 ; by Dawson and Huxley they were 
termed spores, the former in 1871, the latter in 1873 ; aud in 1874 the same bodies were figured under the term 
sporangia by Lyell. Eor a comparatively full svnonomy and references see my “ Catalogue of Australian Fossils.” 
— R. E., jun.] 
