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essentially deviates from that of the hitherto known Tertiary Flora. We find 
here the same mixed character as in the Tertiary Flora of Europe, North 
America, and Australia, the analogies of which to the New Zealand Tertiary 
species may easily he seen in the subjoined table. 
Although the Tertiary Flora of New Zealand is very different from the 
living one, yet with regard to several species a close relationship is clearly 
indicated. Thus, Aspidium tertiario-zeelandicum and A. novce-zeelandice, 
Presl., Dammara Oweni and D. australis, Lamb., Podocarpus Parkeri and 
P. Totara, Don., Dacrydium prcecupressinum and D. cupressinum , Sol., &c., 
arc closely allied. Besides, several genera, for instance, Fagus, Hedycarya, 
Santalum , Loranthus , &c., are represented in both, whereas others seem to be 
in a genetic relation to living ones, and the latter may in some degree be 
transmuted from the former. Thus, Daphnophyllum or Laurophyllum may have 
turned out to be Nesodaphne, likewise Apocynopliyllum to Parsonsia, Aralia 
to ScheJJlera, Sapindus to Alectryon, & c. On the contrary, we miss in the 
recent (endemic) flora of New Zealand a considerable series of genera due to 
its Tertiary one ; for example, Lomariopsis, Sequoia, Araucaria, Seaforthia, 
Casuarina, Myrica, Alnus, Quercus, Ulmus, Planera, Ficus, Cinnamomum, 
Dryandra, Diospyros, Aralia, Acer, Sapindus, Ekcodendron, & c. 
According to the preceding statements, the principal results of my 
Memoir are as follows : — 
Firstly. — In New Zealand there exists a genetic relationship between 
its Tertiary and its living Flora. 
Secondly. — The Tertiary Flora of New Zealand contains the elements 
of floras. 
Thirdly. — The Tertiary Flora of New Zealand is a part of that universal 
Or iginal Flora, from which all living floras of the globe descend. 
Fourthly . — In New Zealand only one part of its Tertiary Flora has 
changed into its living flora ; the other has become extinct. 
I proeeed now to communicate a brief record on the fossil plants 
occurring in the abovenamed localities. 
I. — Of all the localities ascribed to the Tertiary formation that of Shag 
Point is the richest and most interesting. Of Cryptoganne two species of 
Aspidium, and of Cycadese a specimen betraying some resemblance to Za mites 
tertiarius, TIeer, has been found. Of Coni terse we have ten species belonging 
to seven genera. They are fully enumerated in the table affixed below. 
