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length, the longest being about three inches and the shortest an inch and a-qnarter. 
^’lie nodes, although faintly marked, are sutfieieutly so to demonstrate the generic 
identity of the plant, and are very apparent on the application of the finger, but 
the pressure which the specimens have undergone renders them rather oblique. The 
cost®, or ribs, are fine, narrow, and close together, opposite on contiguous internodes, 
®'Od not alternating. The fineness of the cost® probably indicates that the bark, when 
present, entirely concealed them, whilst the continuity of the cost® from internode to 
iiiternode indicates Arclwoealamites as the section to which the plant should be referred. 
Ihere are no scars of branches along the nodes, as in either Galamitina, Eucalamites, or 
^^y^ocalamites. 
The whole of the organic matter has been removed, the specimens being merely 
I'lie infilling by matrix of the cavity left by the decomposition of the plant. 
Loo. Lower Training Wall Quarries, Litzroy Eiver, Rockhampton (The late 
Smith). 
Genus— A8TLSB0GALAMITES, Schimper, 1862. 
(Terr. Transition des Vosges, p. 321.) 
Asteiiocalamites sceobiculatus, Sehlotheim.., sp., PI. 4, figs. 11, 12. 
^^lamitcs scrobiculatits, Schl., Petrefactenkunde, 1820, Abth. 1, p. 402, t. 20, f. 11. 
>> nidiatus, Brongniart, Hist. Boss. Viig., 1828, p. 122, t. 2(i, f. 2. 
” fadiatus, Feistmantel, Palaeontographioa, 1879, Supp. Bd. iii.. Lief. 3, Heft 4, p. 144, t. 6, f. 1, 
t. 7, if. 3, 4. 
’> radiatus, Ten. Woods, Journ. R. Soc. N. S. Wales for 1882 [1883], xvi., p. 187, t. 11, f. 5, t. 12, 
ft. 7, 10. 
>' radiatus, Ten. Woods, Proo. Linn. Soo. N. S. Wales, 1883, viii., Pt. 1, pp. 52, 83. 
® ^rocalamitcs scrobiculatus, Kidston, Cat. Foss. Plants, Brit. Mus., 1880, p. 35. 
Obs. This species is quoted as a Queensland plant by the Rev. J. E. Tenison 
cods at one part of his Paper on the “Eossil Flora of the Coal Deposits of 
;j^^ustralia,” hut is not described in that portion devoted to the specific diagnosis, 
j y Colleague, however, quotes Galamites radians * from a definite locality in Queens- 
^ c, and this may perhaps be meant for the same species. Good examples have 
■ collected by Mr. W. Eryar, Inspector of Mines, from Bogantungan, correspond- 
Well with Mr. Woods’ figures. One of these exhibits five nodes and the other 
three. 
^ Loo. and JSorizon. Bogantungan, Drummond Range (W. Fryar) ; ? Drummond 
Family— SCHIZONEDRID^. 
Genus — PHYLLOTHFGA, Brongniart, 1828. 
(Prodrome Hist. Vdg. Foss., p. 151.) 
Phtllotheca AU8TEALIS, Brongniart, PI. 17, f. 13. 
otheca australis, Brong., loc. cit., p. 152. 
” )i Morris in Strzelecki’s Phys. Descrip. N. S. Wales, &c., 1845, p. 250. 
” 1 ) Dana, Geology Wilkes’ U. S. Explor. Exped., 1849, p. 718, t. 13, f. 6, t. 14, f. 1. 
” » Feistmantel, Palaeontographioa, 1878, Supp. Bd. iii.. Lief. 3, Heft 3, p. 83, t. G, f. 3, 
t. 7, f. 1, 2, t. 15, f. 1 and 2 (?). 
This plant is a very characteristic fossil of the Freshwater Beds of the 
Piver Coal Field Series. Some years ago I wrote on this point “that tlie 
Handbook of Queensland Geology, 1886, p. 41. 
