4 § Sedimentary Formations 
and in it analysis lias detected the presence of gold, though some 
quartz veins at the north end contained none. 
My impression at first was that the lignite is recent, but I place 
the deposits under the present head because it may be possible, 
notwithstanding the opinion of a botanical friend whose judg¬ 
ment is worthy of esteem, the plants are not recent. Baron Yon 
Mueller, to whom I submitted them, hesitated to express an 
opinion. They are deposited in clays of various kinds, chiefly 
white. Some of the hardened clinker-like sands covering the 
clays remind me of the sands on the coast of Dorset, at Studlaud 
and Bourne month. If this bo really a Tertiary locality, it does 
not contradict the general assertion at the commencement of this 
section, for no shells of any kind have been detected in any part 
of these beds. Swampy and stunted plants still grow on the 
sands, which are very wet, and probably reproduce the pheno¬ 
mena beneath them, with the exception of the white clays 
which were in part derived from the decomposed felspathic 
matter of the porphyry. In various parts of Maneero there arq 
lignite-like local thin "deposits, but on analysis they have proved 
valueless. 
By far theniost interesting discovery that has been made in 
relation to tlie plant beds, was realized in the basaltic district of 
the Forest between Orange and Carcoar. 
The description of several new genera and species of fossil 
prints has been given in “ Observations on JVew Vegetable Fossils 
of the Auriferous Drifts,” by Baron F. Yon Mueller, C.M.G., 
M.D., Ph. D , F.R.S., and L.8., Government Botanist, &c.; pub¬ 
lished by the “ Mining Department’’ of Yietoria, 18 7T. These 
have been discovered, not only in the Forest, but also in Victoria, 
at Haddon, Nintiugbol, Tanjol, and at Beech worth. They seem 
to belong to the later Pliocene formation, and to consist of plants 
allied to the present forest-belt of Eastern Australia. An 
abstract of the first account of them was read before the Geolo¬ 
gical Society, on 22nd June, 1870, and afterwards copied from 
the Quarterly Journal (vol. 27) into the Geological Magazine , 
1870, p. 390. 
They consist of the following species, viz. — 
Spondylostrobus .. 
Phymatocaryon .. 
Trematocaryon .. 
Rhytidotheca 
a 
Plesiocapparis 
Celyphina 
Odontocaryon 
Smythii 
MacJcayii 
angulare 
McLellani 
Lynchii 
fmoclinis 
jyrisca 
McCoy i 
Mac Greg or ii 
