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(lichoioiuioii mid tliG otbcr is X. timosum of Sternberg, and tbat 
both are undoubted plants of the true (European and American) 
coal measures. , 
Having personally compai'cd Avith specimens from Iviltorkan 
(in my Yiossession) the ^yvincfodendrou dicliotoviun (of ]NXr. Car- 
ruthers’ paper before referred to) ivhich I sent home to England 
some years since, and which is yet in the Geological Society s 
Museum, let me add that I found it in company Avith the 
Lepidodendron nothm and some other casts of plants, in the 
year 1K52. 
I AAmuld remark, that in one locality in Tasmania I collected 
many individuals of a species of so called Syringodeudron, which 
occurred in the coal measures at the base of Spring Hill, on the 
slope of Avhich hill Strzelecld stated that he found in beds of sand- 
stone Fecopferis odonfopferoides underlying the Fachjdomus 
glohoms, known to Professor M‘Coy as a Wollongong Lower 
Carboniferous shell. It is only fair to add that though I made 
in two diflercnt yeai's a close examination of the hill and the 
surrounding district 1 failed to recognise the shell, though I^saAV 
much that reminded me of the geology of certain parts of the 
Hunter Eiver coal formation, and of the Illawarra, of the age of 
Avhich there is little doubt. 
On the borders of the Devonian formation in parts of the 
Hunter and jManning Ei\'cr basins, the LoAA'er Carboniferous 
Avhich is highly inclined passes on along the same strike into beds 
charged AA'ith y.epidodendron, Knorria^ Slgilhria, &c., and in some 
instiinccs Lepidodendron occurs iu the same blocks Avith ? Otopteris 
ovafa of ]\[-Coy, an example of Avhich Avas shoAvn in the Exhi- 
bition at Sydney in A])ril, 1S75, from tbe cast of Stroud. On 
the ranges at the head of the Peel, and about Booral, Stroud, and 
Scone occur numerous fragmentary blocks A>dth Lepidodendron 
and other usually associated fossils of Avhat by many would be 
considered Lower Carboniferous beds. 
Tliesc and other facts of similar kind have been often stated 
by me on former occasions. They are referred to on this, in order 
to show the relations of the iS'cw Soutli ATales formations.^ At 
present many of the points Avhcrc the Hpper and Middle 
Paheozoics meet arc ill-defined, and it will require the researches 
and labours of many years to fill them in with strict accuracy. 
'Nov can it he wondered at, that in so large a territory and Avith 
such complicated and broken teatimes details must for a long 
period to come give Avay to generalizations. Aware of Avhat is 
Avanting T, nevertheless, accept Avith satisfaction the testimony 
oftered'^to ihc Avork I have endeaA'Oured to perform, because 
Avhat has been accomplished by me single-handed, and Avithout 
the aid which Avorkors in such a field expect and receive froiix 
public funds, has bccu undertakeu and carried out, so far as 
