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Section-PHANEROGAMIA. 
Class — ^D icottledones. 
Order — CTCADACEiE, 
Family— COEDAITE^.* * * § 
Genus— OOBBAITES, Unger, 1850. 
(Gen. et Sp. Plantarum, p. 277.) 
COKBAITES AUSTRALIS, McCoy. 
Cordaites australis, MoCoy, Prod. Pal. Viet., P’ 22- 
Ten. Woods, Proc. Linn. Soo. N. S. Wales, 1883, im., Pt. 1, p. loo 
Obs The leaves of G. australis have been recorded by the Eev. J. E Temson 
AVoods from tho plant beds of the Drummond Eange (Star Beds). He says- I believe 
I have identified the same species in the shales and slates of Gympie, Queenslan ( . y 
Mary Shaft), and also in the sandstone ranges at the Drummond Eange (Bogantun an) 
in the sandstone about one mile west of the railway station In both it ^ ^ 
abundant.” The plant has not occurred in any Collection I have examined from either 
of the above localities. 
Order — CON I PER.E. 
Family — AEATJ C AEIEiE. 
Genus-ABAUCABOXYLON {Krauss), ScUmgter, 1870. 
(Traite Pal. Veg., 1870, ii., Pt. 1, p. 380.) 
Abaucaroxtlok Nicholi, Carruthers {MS.) 
Arauearoxi/lon NidioU, Carruthers in Etheridge, fil., Proc. R. Phys. Soo. Edinb., 1880, v., p. 32S. ^ 
Ohs. This name was given by Mr. W. Carruthers, F.E.S to some wood ob ained 
by Mr. .Tack in the Bowen Eiver Coal Field. As Mr. Carruthers has since faded t 
dLcribe it, the name had better lapse, and be erased from nomenclature. It would no^ 
have been referred to here had it not been necessary to account for the name, wluc 
““IZliofS^ itself an interesting f^t, as 
affording still further evidenee of the identity of the Bowen Coa 
corresponding series in New South Wales. My Colleague states that in the 
Marine Bowen beds “ portions of the trunks of coniferous rees are ^ 
lying horizontally in the strata.”! Again, in the U pper or Freshwater Series of the sa 
LI the strata^xposed in Jack’s Creek contain ‘‘numerous large drift d^ 
(Coniferous). These occasionally retain some part of the branching roots. 
silicified to a black flint, sometimes partly opalised.’’! In another 
tree was found to measure thirty-one feet m length. § And wha^s of equal 1 * 
“ the same species of drifted coniferous wood is common to the Marine and Fresh 
Series.” II ■ 
*Lesqueroux, Coal Elora Carb. Eonn. Pennsylvania, 1880, p. 527. ‘‘The Cordaites 
generally referred to the Eicotyledonoua Gymnosperms, as intermediate in character between t jy 
and the the'Bowen River Coal Eield. Brisbane ; by Authority : 1870, p 7. 
X Ibid., '2% 
§ Handbook Geol. Queensland, 188b, p. 4o 
11 Report, loc, cit. p. 33. 
