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III.—On the Occurrence of Haliserites in the Upper Silurian and Upper Devonian Rocks of Victoria, Australia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Fredk Chapman
Affiliation:
Palæontologist to the National Museum, Melbourne

Extract

During the last few years there have passed through my hands for determination many specimens of a twig-like fossil-plant from the highest Silurian flaggy-sandstones of Victoria. These were usually too fragmentary to afford any very decided evidence as to their affinity, although their surfaces showed a close-textured and well-defined structure, referable to that of prosenchymatous wood-cells, and the stem had a definite central vascular axis, such as was first noticed by Hugh Miller in similar fossil remains from the Old Red Sandstone of Scotland.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1908

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