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List of the Mesozoic Species here recorded from New Zealand— continued. 
Species. 
Mount Potts. 
Clent Hills. 
Hokonui Hills or 
Gatlin's Biver. 
Malvern Hills. 
■ 
M o k o i a, near 
Gore. 
Mataura. 
Waikawa. 
Waikato Heads. 
P ODOZAMITEZE. 
■ 
36. Podozamites gracilis sp. nov. 
• • 
X 
H 
Ginkgoales. 
37. Baiera robusta sp. nov. 
X 
CoNIFERALES. 
38. Araucarites cutchensis Feist. 
2 
. . 
X 
... 
39. Brachyphyllum sp. 
. . 
X 
. . 
. . 
40. Cryptomerites sp. .. 
. . 
X 
• •* 
41. Elatocladus conjerta (0. & M.) 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
42. A. sp. 
. . 
. . 
. . 
X 
• • 
43. Nageiopsis longijolia ? Font. 
* . 
. . 
. . 
X 
44. Pagiopkyllum peregrinum (L. & H ) .. 
. . 
. . 
X 
45. Stachyotaxus sp. 
Angiospermje (Dicotyledones). 
X 
- 
46. Artocarpidium Arberi Laur. 
• . 
• . 
• • 
. . 
X 
47. Phyllites sp. 
• • - 
X 
Incertze Sedis. 
48. Carpolithus McKayi sp. nov. 
•• 
. , 
, . 
• . 
. . 
Obscure fructifications 
, , 
. , 
, , 
, . 
X 
Roots 
• • 
X 
• • 
• • 
It will be seen from the above list that the number of figured records here 
described from New Zealand exceeds forty-eight(l), including thirty-seven species, as com¬ 
pared with eleven species, which were alone recorded at the commencement of this 
investigation(2). Of these, at least fourteen species are new or described here for the 
first time, and do not appear to be known from other parts of the world—a somewhat 
high percentage. Two new genera, Linguifolium and Microphyllopteris, are here instituted, 
members of which have been previously recorded from other countries. The remaining 
genera are both widely distributed, and among the commonest types constituting the 
Mesophytic floras of all regions. 
The present investigation of the earlier fossil floras of New Zealand has shown 
that there is, at the time of writing, no evidence of any terrestrial vegetation older 
than the Triasso-Rhaetic. It is a remarkable fact that, despite assertions to the contrary, 
no trace of any Palaeozoic floras has been found in these islands. Even in Permo- 
Carboniferous times, when the southern continent of Gondwanaland included a very 
large part of the Southern Hemisphere, New Zealand did not, on the known evidence, 
fo rm any part of that continent, as might perhaps have been anticipated. In fact, 
there is no evidence to show either that New Zealand was connected with Australia 
or Antarctica in late Palaeozoic times, or even that New Zealand then existed at all. 
(1) In addition to three valid records previously described, of which no specimens are here recorded. 
The total number of established records of New Zealand Mesophytic plants is consequently 
now fifty-one species. 
2) Arber (1913 * 2 ), p. 129, and page 4 of this memoir. 
