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GEOLOGICAL MEMOIRS.

1. The Tertiary Flora of Radoboj. By Prof. C. von Ettingshausen.

[Proc. Imp. Geol. Inst. Vienna, May 19, 1870.]

At present the Tertiary Flora of Radoboj is known to include 295 species, which occur in six localities : 9 of these are marine forms (7 Algae and 2 Naiadeae) ; 6 are freshwater (1 Chara, 1 Salvinia, 1 Potamogeton, 1 Halorhagoea, and 2 Typhaceoe) ; and 5 are palustrine (2 Equiseta, 1 Juncus, 1 Ledum, and 1 Andromeda). Among the terrestrial plants a valley-vegetation of decidedly tropical character is represented by the remains of Palms, Artocarpeae, species of Ficus, Apocynaceae, Sapotaceae, Ebenaceae, Bombaceae, Engelhardtioe, Combretaceae, and Melastomaceae ; a mountain-vegetation by the genera Pinus, Betula, Fagus, Ostrya, Carpinus, Ulmus, Populus and Clematis ; and an intermediate flora of subtropical and warm temperate type by a few Laurineae, Magnoliaceae, Styraceae, Oleaceae, Celastrineae, Ilicineae, Anacardiaceae, and Rhamnaceae. On the whole the flora of Radoboj is not coeval with that of the Aquitanian Brown-coal formation, as supposed by Prof. Unger, but belongs to a higher geological horizon, and presents a striking resemblance to the flora of Priesen, near Bilin (N. Bohemia). [Count M.]

2. On the Fauna of the Culm and Carboniferous Limestone of Lower Silesia. By Dr. E. Tietze.

[Proc. Imp. Geol. Inst. Vienna, April 25, 1870.]

The only trace of vertebrate animals from these deposits is a tooth of Ctenoptychius found at Altwasser. The trilobites are represented by Phillipsia derbyensis, Mart., P. gemmulifera, Phil., and some other species of this genus. Some isolated pygidia must have belonged to individuals of larger size than those generally met with in the Carboniferous Limestone. Small Cypridinoe occur at Rothwaltersdorf.

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