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This specimen is from Thrombow, and I think perhaps this locality is lower in age than 
the others. This species signifies again that we should take for the Kach series a lower age 
than has lately been given to it. The other species of ferns and the other conferee suggest 
the separation of the Kach from the Rajmahal series. 
Two other hranchlets occur, which I would consider also as Palissya, Endl. They 
resemble very much Phillips’ Taxites laxus, Philh, which, however, seems also to be a 
Palissya : and I would designate it as Palissya laxa, Philh, sp. 
2. — Genus, Pachyphyllum Bgt. 
a ,_ Pachyphyllum divaricatum, Fstm.—A coniferous branch, agreeing quite with 
Cryptomerites divaricatus, Bunb., from Scarborough; but I believe this fossil more correctly 
placed in the genus Pachyphyllum, Schimp., as I have also placed our specimen. 
Locality: Kukurhit. 
3. — Eehinostrobus, Schimp. 
a .—Eehinostrobus expansus, Schimp. The most frequent, and also quite characteristic 
coniferous plant, is a form with thin and dichotomous branches, having the general aspect 
of a Thuya or Cupressus, and which also at first was described as Thuytes expansus, 
Stbg. (Phillips). It is now placed by Schimper in his new genus Eehinostrobus, Schimp. 
This species also is thus identical with a species from the English Oolite. 
Locality: Kukurhit, frequent. 
4. —Scales of fossil cones. 
Very remarkable also are some rather frequent fossils, which on the first view must he 
recognized as scales of fossil cones. If we look after analogies in existing literature, we 
find some quite the same in Phillips’ Geology of Yorkshire, and recently in Mr. Carrutkers’ 
paper on some undescribed coniferous fruits from secondary rocks of Britain (Geo. Mag., 
1869). Phillips mentioned this fossil as “ winged seed” ; while Mr. Carruthers described them 
with Araucarites as scales of cones of this genus. Our fossils are of the same kind. 
Locality : Pretty frequent at Kukurhit. 
This may, therefore, be the general view of fossil plant remains from Kach :—Generally 
considered, the flora declares itself at once as Jurassic. The particular horizon must be 
determined by the most characteristic fossils. These ar e—Oleandridium (Tmiiopteris) 
vittatum, Schimp. Alethopteris Whitbyensis, Gopp.; Gen. Pachypteris, Bgt.; Otosamites 
cf. GoHitei, Bgt.; Cycadites Eachensis, Fstm. (Palissya, Endl.); Pachyphyllum divari¬ 
catum, Fstm.; Eehinostrobus expansus, Schimp. Scales. 
All these fossils occur in the English Oolite of Scarborough and Whitby: and 
the same plants from Jurassic strata in Kach may he placed generally in the same age. 
While some localities seem to indicate a lower horizon, we can say that the Jurassic strata 
of Kach generally are of an Oolitic age; and it is of a lower Oolitic horizon, corre¬ 
sponding to the strata seen on the Yorkshire coast at Scarborough and Whitby, with 
which our flora has about ten genera and species in common. With the Oolitic flora of Italy 
and France there are only some genera in common; as is also the case between those floras 
