New South Wales. 
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Conchotheca . rotundata 
„ ... ... ... turgida 
Penteune... . ... ClarTcei * 
„ ... ... ... ... bracliyclinis 
„ ... ... ... ... ti'achyclinis 
Dieuno ... ... ... ... pluriovulata 
Platycoila . Siillivani 
Ehytidocaryon ... ... ... WilJcinsonii 
and, probably, some others. 
This last species was discovered somewhere to the -west of 
Bathurst iu one of the gold leads, in the beginning of March, 
1S75, on the 10th of which month I had the good fortune to re¬ 
discover it in the refuse from a shaft near Lumpy Swamp, in the 
Forest, between Orange and Carcoar, Baron Yon Mueller having 
stated in his Report of 29th July, 1874, that we require to learn 
“what was the nature of their leaves and floral organs.” In order 
to search for these, I made a second journey to the Forest, having 
first explored it in 1872, and found, together with four specimens 
of Phytidocaryon Wilkinsonii and a number of already described 
species, several leaves embedded in a ligneous clay in the refuse 
of a shaft, together with portions of the branches of some tree or 
trees. The tissue of the leaves was in some cases so thin that it 
-peeled off on touching. The collection, which included a few 
other specimens of seeds and seed vessels given to me by Mr. A. 
Montgomery, who lives in the neighbourhood, I sent on to the 
Baron, who has forwarded them to Professor Schimper, of Stras¬ 
bourg, being unable at present to undertake their examination. 
Iu a short time, therefore, we may expect to know more about 
these interesting plants. 
Professor M £ Coy has enumerated in the list of Tertiary 
Victorian fossils between thirty and forty Oligocene species; 
thirty to fifty or more Miocene, together with many tropical 
types of 'Dicotyledonous plants ; and from the auriferous drifts 
four Molluscs, six Marsupials, and a Dingo, with the wood and 
fruit of a Banksia and the foliage of Eucalyptus obliqua. These 
are partly Pliocene and partly Post 'pliocene . 
The occurrence of Banksia (four species) in the Tertiary forma¬ 
tion of Heeling, in the Tyrol (see Clarke’s “Southern Gold Fields,” 
p. 173) and in Victoria is a highly instructive fact as to the ancient 
vegetation of the world. The seed-vessels of plants deep below 
the surface in the auriferous drifts of Victoria and Hew South 
"Wales wero also mentioned by me in 18G0, in the work alluded to 
above (p. 173). 
The thickness of the rocks in the Forest and at Lumpy Swamp 
vary somewhat, but an example or two will show the character of 
the country over the gold leads. 
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