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and even Z. nothum may, for anything I know to the contrary, 
ancon d to them and belong to both Upper and Middle Palaeozoic. 
In the section on the Devonians facts are mentioned which show 
that such plants are well known in our Carboniferous beds, and 
there are numerous others which can be easily established. 
Other acknowledged Lower Carboniferous plants are also 
known, though denied in no very gracious spirit some years since. 
Professor M‘ Coy, as we have seen, doubted it, and Do Zjgno 
accepted the doubt ; but the plants are here nevertheless, and 
were not manufactured out of Mesozoic specimens. 
Mr. Leo Lcsquercux, of Columbus, Ohio, whose reputation is 
sufficient authority, was good enough to examine two carefully 
photographed examples from the Itouehel River which I sent to 
Professor Dana, and pronounced one to he Z. dichotomuni and 
the other Z. rimomm of Sternberg. 
Professor De Ivon inch also found embedded with the Marine 
fossils of my collection from the Lower Carboniferous of Muree, 
Glen William, Burragood, and the Kama, various well-known 
plants, suth as Z. vellheimianum (Sternb.) ; Bornta radiata (A. 
Brougir.) ; Calamitcs varians (Germnr) ; Schizopteris (sp.), Ac., Ac. 
Dr. Feistmantel (Palaeontologist to the Geological Survey of 
India) has also recognized in the strata from Smith’s Creek, 
Stroud, Bhaeopteris (first found there by mo in 1850); 
Tamiopteris, (near) JEokardi (Germar); Cyclostigma Kiltorka- 
mnn ; a Paleozoic Sphenophyllum, with Glossopteris , which also 
occurs in some of the other Lower strata, as at Muree, Ac., 
Lepidodeudrun, Ac. (“Recorda of G. S. of India f No. 4, 187(5.) 
J privately learn that Dr. F. thinks the species of Rhacoptoris are 
very near to It. Iraimlionin (Shir) and li.JlabelUfara (Star) [— 
Cycloptcris huetjuilnlern (Gdpp)] and near to Sphenopt. jHomer i 
from itothwaltersdorf in Silesia — Culm. 
I have now sent additional specimens to Calcutta, and the 
question of Otoptcrw from Arowa will bo settled which I have 
written with (?) as reported from Stroud, it being quite possible 
that Ithacopteris may occur in each locality. (See Appendix A’.) 
One object in quoting these data will be served bv comparing 
them with the extracts in the note below. * 
* The Baron de Zigtio having stated in I860 that the. Indian strata, with 
fossil plants belonged to the “ Lower group of the Oolite,” adds: — ‘‘This 
would not bo the case with those'of Australia, if the observations made in 1847 
by the Rev. Mr. Clarke were confirmed, for he mentions in these deposits the 
presence of the genera Sigillnria, Lepidodendron, and Stigma via, which 
would settle the question. But 1 am not aware that the facts thus cited haw 
been since verified. On the contrary, no mention is made of these genera in 
the works of Messrs. Moore and M‘Coy, in which we are presented with a 
scries of forms which, together with local types analogous to those of India, 
them are species which recall the Jurassic flora of Scarborough.” [“Some 
Observations on the Flora of the Oolite. By Baron A. de Ziyno Q.J.G.S. 
