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An iissemblagc of inacroplants preserved as highly coalified compressions which lack anatomy is described froin a Wenlock locality in County Tipperary, Ireland. Most of the fertile specimens are assigned to Goksonia Ling. l'hr taxonomic status of this genus is discussed. Some poorly preserved palynomorphs, including miospores, acritarchs, chitinozoans and a variety of tubes, have been isolated from associated sediments, hut the age of the flora is based on graptolites. Sedimentological and pa1;ieontologir;il stiidies of the region are summarized. They provide little direct evidence for the habitats of the plants which are considered to have been terrestrial. The relevance of this flora to the current debate on the colonization of the land is evaluated and it is concluded that these plants provide the earliest record of erect fertile land plants of possible pteridophyte affinity.

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