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stated that the elements of floras are united, not only in the Tertiary Flora of 
Europe, the Arctic Regions, North America, and of Australia, but also 
in the Tertiary Floras of other portions of the globe. The facts just mentioned 
confirm this even more strongly. Besides, I am able to state the same result 
from facts obtained by examining the Tertiary Flora of New Zealand, rich 
collections of which Prof. Dr. Julius von Haast and Prof. T. J. Parker 
kindly forwarded me.* There is now scarcely any doubt that the general 
character of all Tertiary Floras of the globe is one and the same in regard to 
the mixture which they exhibit, and carried, until the separation of the 
elements of floras into the special floras towards the present period. 
The relationship of the Tertiary Floras of the globe to one another 
is based upon the common elements of floras. The comparison of the Austra- 
lian Tertiary Flora to the European shows at once not only many families and 
genera which are common to both, but also that many species of the one are 
more or less closely allied to species of the other. For example, the following 
species are closely related: — Callitris prise a is closely related to C. Brong- 
niartii, Sequoia australiensis to S. Langsdorfii, Bodocarpus prcccupressina 
to P. elegans , Casuarina (Joold to C. sotzkiana, Alnus Mac Coy i to A. Kefers- 
teinii, Quercus TVilkinsoni to Q. chlorophylla, Q. Hartogi to Q. drymeja , 
Fagus Benthami to F. Feronice, Ficus Gidleyi to F. arcinervis, F. Solanderi 
to F. Beussii, F. Willsii to F. Jynx, Cinnamomum polymorphoides to C. 
polymorphum, C. Leichardtii to C. spcctabile, C. Nuytsii to C. lanceolatum, 
Grevillea proxima to G. hceringiana, Banksia Lawsoni to B. Deikeana , B. 
Hooelli to B. hceringiana , B. myriccefolia and B. lancifolia to B. JIngeri, 
Dryandra Benthami to D. acutiloba, Callicoma primeeva to C. pannonica, 
Ceratopetalum Macdonaldi to C. bilinicum, Elceocarpus Muelleri to E. 
Albrechti, Acer subproduetum to A. trilobatum , A. subintegrilobum to A. 
integrilobum. Regarding many other analogies and representatives of types, 
I refer to the affixed table, indicating the relationship of the Tertiary plants 
of Australia to those of Europe, of the Arctic Regions, and of North America. 
I have selected the following few from among numerous new forms, 
as possessing greater interest. 
A remarkable Anomozamites related to an Anomozamites of Greenland, 
indicates some affinity of the present flora to that of the Cretaceous Period. 
Fheterocladiscos, a peculiar Cupressinea shows dimorphous branchlets, the 
"A brief report on the Fhyto-palreontological Investigations of the Fossil Flora of New Zealand (published 
in the “ Denkschriften” of the Imperial Academy of Sciences of Vienna, vol. liii, p. 143), I give in the 
Appendix below. 
