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It is possible that the Victorian plants may belong to a flora slightly more 
recent than rhaetic in age ; the botanical evidence is not in accordance with 
the opinion that the strata belong to the triassic system, but points clearly to 
jurassic horizon. 
In 1883, J. E. Tenison-Woods* * * § gave a sketch of previous work on Australian 
fossil floras, and added descriptions of several hitherto unrecorded species. 
This author states that no rhaetic or lower lias plants are known from 
Victoria or Tasmania, but he speaks of jurassic species from four regions in 
Victoria :—Wannon and Glenelg; Cape Otway; Cape Paterson to Traralgon 
and Latrobe Valley ; and Welshpool. Tenison-Woods mentions the following 
Victorian species, which he refers to a flora of jurassic age :—f 
Phyllotheca concinna, Tenison-Woods (?). 
Podozamites Barklyi , McCoy. 
P. longifolius , McCoy. 
P. ellipticus, McCoy. 
Tceniopteris Daintreei McCoy. 
Alethopteris australis (Mor.) 
Sphenopteris sp. 
The only two forms included in this list that are represented in the collection 
forwarded to me are Tcenopteris Daintreei and Alethopteris australis (—Clado- 
phlebis denticulata, var. australis). Messrs. Jack and Etheridge, in their 
Geology of Queensland and Neiv Guinea,% adopt the term trias-jura for the 
Ipswich and Burrum series of Queensland, and in the article “ Australia,” in 
one of the recently published supplementary volumes of the Encyclopedia 
Britannica, the writer adds that “ certain beds in Victoria, about Cape Pater¬ 
son, Barrabool Hills, and a series known as the Bellarine beds .... may 
belong to this series [trias-jura].” 
Mr. Stirling’s Reports on the Victorian Coal-fields contain a few notes on 
some of the fossil plants obtained from the Gippsland carbonaceous area ; 
these are in part supplied by Sir F. McCoy, and in part written by the author 
of the Reports. The conclusion drawn from the plant-evidence is that the 
Gippsland strata are clearly of jurassic age.§ In these reports the plants are 
not fully discussed, and it is impossible in some cases to form a clear idea from 
the drawings as to the nature of the material. 
The species mentioned in Stirling’s reports with their localities and photo¬ 
graphic reproductions are given in the following list :— 
Podozamites Barklyi, McCoy. 
Bellarine, Kilcunda, Griffith’s 
Point, Albert River. 
Stirling (99), PI. 5, Figs. 3 and 
4. 
P. ellipticus, McCoy. 
Bellarine, Kilcunda. 
P. longifolius, McCoy. 
Bellarine, Calignee. 
Not represented in the collection de¬ 
scribed in these pages. 
* Tenison-Woods (83). 
f Ibid., p. 55. 
j Jack and Etheridge (92). 
§ Stirling (92), (93), (95), (99). 
