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Sphenopteris, Pecopteris, and Alethopteris. — From Glenlee I have 

 collected specimens of each of these genera embracing of the first 

 two several species. This discovery of Pecopteris is of considerable 

 interest. The only Pecopteris, as far as I am aware, described 

 from the Wianamatta Beds up to the present time is the very 

 doubtful P. tenuifoUa, McCoy, from Clark's Hill. 



Neuropteris. — From Glenlee. Several specimens by their 

 neuration appear to belong to this genus. 



Odontopteris. — Among the specimens from Glenlee are some 

 that I must rank in this genus, for the present, notwithstanding 

 that it is such a pronounced carboniferous one. One of my 

 specimens bears some resemblance in the form of the pinnules to 

 a Rhacopteris ; but the venation is too indistinct to admit of 

 determination ; and as the genus has not been met with above the 

 Lower Carboniferous Beds, up to the present, to do more than note 

 the resemblance would not be prudent. From the same locality 

 are a number of pinnules I am unable to identify ; but I have little 

 doubt that some of them are referable to the genus Podozamites. 

 All are from the Wianamatta Beds. 



The specimens will be described later on. 



On the sea-shore near the Bellambi Jetty (Illawarra) in July 

 last, from a fragment of rock appai-ently washed from the reef 

 stretching out from Bellambi Point, I obtained Glossoj)teris linearis, 

 G. densinervis (?), and other species which appear to be G. tencmp- 

 teroides and G. gangamopteroides, and one other which in the 

 character of its venation difters so much from all the Australian 

 species figured by Feistmantel* that I am inclined to believe it will 

 turn out to be a new species. Associated with the above is Nogger- 

 athiopsis, and some impressions bear a strong resemblance to 

 Gangamopteris. The occurrence of these fossils (some of which 

 are characteristic of the Newcastle Beds), and the outcrop of the 

 Upper Marine Beds at Wollongong, leave little room to doubt 

 that the Newcastle and Illawarra Coal Beds are identical. 



* Coal and Plant-bearing Beds of PaUvozoic and Mesozoic Age in Eastern 

 Australia, &c. Published by Department of Mines, N.S.W. 



