CHAPTER XXII. 
THE OKGANIC EBMAINS OP THE PERMO-CAEBONIPEEOUS SYSTEM. 
■With Deschiptions oe the Species. 
Kingdom — ^PLANT.®. 
Section-CRYPTOGAMIiE. 
Class — ACOTTIiEDOKES. 
Order — CALAMAKIE^ j. 
Eamily-EQHISETACE^. 
Genus— GALAMITEB, Suclcow, 1784. 
(Act. Acad. Theodora-Palatina, v., p. 359.) 
Caeamites takians, Germar. 
CaUmiUs varians, Germar, Verstein. _Steinkohl. Wettin u. Lobejun., 1847, fas. 4, p. 47, t. 20 
Sternbere, l^lora, ii. , p. 50, t. 12. 
” ” Ten. Woods, Jouru. R. Soo. N. S. Wales tor 1882 [1883], p. 188. 
” ”, Ten. Woods, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, 1883, viii., Pt. i., p. 84. 
Ols. The roots and stems are described by the Eev. J. E. Tenison ^ 
of common occurrence at the undermentioned locality but the , 
“They abound in tbe strata, and there are some portions of the 
be made up entirely from the stems.” These examples have not come under 
notice. Horizon. Bogantungan, Drummond Range {The late Bev. J. A?- 
Woods ) — Star Beds. 
CaIiAMITES, sp. ind. 
Ols. The occurrence of so typical a Carboniferous plant as Calamites, 
other genera, associated with a Carboniferous marine fauna in Eastern Australia, ! . 
far, been a point of considerable doubt and controversy. Lepdodendron has 
been recorded,* irrespective of the facts given in these pages. Of the tw I 
known in Australia, one, Calamites (Asterocalamites) scrobrioulafusM^ its qnee 
habitat, occurs in the Lower Carboniferous of New South Wales, whilst C. , ^o, 
doubtful horizon in the same country. In the spcmmen now about to be re 
we have a plant from the Rockhampton Training Wall Quarries, whmh b, J 
a rich Permo-Carboniferous fauna to the researches of Messrs De Vis and tn 
James Smith, partaking of many of tho characters of the genus Gnlamites. 
The stems are long, narrow, parallel-sided, and not increasing in wid , 
section arising from compression, and producing a gently cmivex surface, lb 
I nine inches in length, with an average width of one and a-halt 
of the specimens is nine inches m length, witli an average wiuui oi ou. ..u , ^lat 
although one of the fragments is nearer two inches. The internodes are of ^ 
Ann. Report Dept. Mines N. S. Wales for 1889 [1890], p. 239. 
