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forms from the Jurassic of Australia. Elatocladus conferta and Araucarites cutchensis 
appear to occur both in the Kinetic and Jurassic in New Zealand, but on the latter 
horizon only in India. The occurrence of these genera and species thus inclines me 
provisionally to regard the flora of the Gore beds as Lower, rather than Middle, Jurassic. 
Age. —Lower Jurassic. 
Fossil-plant Localities at Gore, Mataura Falls, Waikawa, Catlin’s River, etc. 
G. The Jurassic Flora of the Mataura Falls, Southland. 
Locality .—The locality lies within the township of Mataura, on the important 
river of the same name, from the bed of which the specimens were collected. The 
Mataura plant-beds were described by McKay(l) in 1881, and by Park(2) in 1887. 
The best impressions come from the “ tabular rocks between the main fall and the 
paper-mill on the eastern bank ” of the Mataura. The beds consist of “ alternations 
of a green, coarse-grained sandstone, and dark-coloured sandy beds of a more shaly 
character, the upper surface of these latter beds being often full of the rootlets of 
plants ”(3). 
The Collections.— The material described here belongs partly to the New Zealand 
Geological Survey collection and partly to a collection in the Geological Department 
(1) McKay (1881). 
(2) Park (1887). 
(3) McKay (1881), p. 40. 
