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Concliotheca ... ... ... rotundafa 
„ ... ... ... turgida 
Penteuue ... ... ... ... Clarkei 
5 , ... ... ... ... hrachyclinis 
„ ... ... ... ... tracliycTinis 
Dieiine ... ... ... ... •pturlovulata 
Platjcoila ... ... ... Sullivani 
PhytidocaryoR ... ... ... IVilhinsonii 
and, probably, some others. 
This last species was discovered somewhere to the west of 
Bathurst in one of the gold leads, in the beginning of March, 
1875, on the lOth of which month I had the good fortune to re- 
discover it in the refuse from a shaft near Lumpy Swamp, in the 
Porest, between Orange and Carcoar, Baron Yon Mueller having 
stated in his Eoport of 29th July, 1871, that we require to learn 
“ what was the nature of their leaves and floral organs.” In order 
to search for those, I made a second journey to the Porest, having 
first explored it in 1872, and found, together with four specimens 
of Ithyfldocaryon IVilkinsonii and a number of already described 
species, several leaves embedded in a ligneous clay in the refuse 
of n shaft, togetlior with portions of the branches of some tree or 
trees. The tissue of the leaves was in some cases so thin that it 
peeled oil’ on touching. The collection, which included a few 
other specimens of seeds and seed vessels given to me by Mr. A. 
Alontgomery, who lives in the neighbourhood, I sent on to the 
Baron, who has forwarded them to Professor Schimper, of Stras- 
bourg, being unable at present to undertake their exainiualiou. 
Li a short time, therefore, we may cxjocct to know more about 
these interesting plants. 
Professor M'Coy has enumerated in the list of Tertiary 
Victorian fossils between thirty and forty OUyocene species"; 
thirty to fifty or more IVIiocene, togctlicr with many tropical 
types of Dicotyledonous plants ; and from the auriferous drifts 
four ]\rolluscs, six Marsii])ials, aud a Dingo, with the wood aud 
fruit of a l^anksia and the foliage of Eucalyptus obli([ua. These 
arc partly tPlloccne and partly IPost pliocene. 
The occurrence of Bauksia (four species) hi the Tertiary forma- 
tion of Heeling, in the Tyrol (see Clarke’s Southern G-old Pields,” 
p. 178) aud in \ ictoi’ia is a liighly instructive fact as to the ancient 
vegetation of the world. The scetl-vcssels of plants deej) below 
the surface in the auriferous drifts of ATctoria and New South 
"Wales were also mentioned by me in 18G0, in the work alluded to 
above (p. 173). 
The thickness of the rocks in the T'orest and at Lumpy Swamp 
vary somewhat, but an example or two will shoiv the character of 
the country over the gold loads. 
