NOTES ON SOME AUSTRALIAN FOSSILS. 

 By Felix Ratte, M.E. 



I. — Salisburia palmata, emend, from Jeanpaulia or Baiera 



PALMATA, Ratte. 



Jeanpaulia or Baiera i^oilmata, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 

 2nd ser. Vol. L p. 1078, pi. XVII. 



When I described the above I had been able to consult only 

 the first two volumes of de Saporta's " Terrain Jurassique " in 

 " Paleontologie Fran§aise." Tome III, of this work published in 

 1876-1879, deals with the Coniferous Plants. From the evidence 

 here given, Jeanpaulia is no more to be considered as a fern. A 

 great number of Jurassic species (1) have been described by M. 

 Heer, and placed in the genus Salisburia, being, from their mode of 

 fructification, generically identical with the actual Ginkgo biloba, 

 Lin. {Salisburia adiantifolia, Sm.). Therefore this group of plants 

 is dealt with by de Saporta under the heading 



Trib. I. SALiSBURiiE, I.e., p, 251. 



This author says, p. 253. . . . . . " ainsi 



que le remarque avec raison Mr. Heer, le type de ces Salisburia 

 jurassiques s'ecarte tres-peu, sauf par la dimension plus petite et 

 la forme plus ovoide des graines du Salisburia vivant, tandis que 

 les especes wealdiennes et cretacees {Baiera), s'en ecartent bien 

 davantage, circonstance qui explique pourquoi les afiinites legitimes 

 de ces dernieres ont ete si longtemps meconnues " 



The figure given in Tome III. of Baiera {Jeanpmdia) Mi'mste- 

 riana, Presl., the type of the genus Jeanpaulia, and which is very 



(1) From Cape Boheman (^Js/jonZ,— Isfjord.) 



