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NOTE ON THE FRUCTIFICATION OF GLOSSOPTERIS. 

 By John Mitchell, Public School, Narellan. 



The detection of fructification on Glossojjteris is so I'are that the 

 record of even suspected cases of its detection must be of interest 

 to palaeontologists. It is for that reason that I briefly note what 

 appears to me to be an instance of fructification on a fragment of 

 Glossopteris broivniana (?). Feistmantel* states that in the Indian 

 vai'iety of G. broivniana he has observed rounded sori placed 

 in longitudinal rows between the 

 margin and midrib. Mr. Carruthers 

 thought that in a Queensland speci- 

 men of the same species, he observed 

 linear sori running along the veins 

 between the margin and midrib, and 

 nearer the former than the latter.t 

 Tliis reference of Mr. Carruthers is 

 all, I believe, that has been written 

 on the fructification of Australian 

 Glossopte7'is, and amounts to nothing 

 affii-mative. 



My specimen consists of the distal 

 portion of a frond two and one-fifth 

 (■J!) inches in length, and of this the 

 right side is missing from near the 

 midrib. On the left side are tliree 

 suboval, convex impressions, place<l 

 longitudinally between the midrib and 



* " Coal and Plant-beariug Beds of Palaeozoic and Mesozoic Age in 

 Eastern Australia," &c. Mem. Geol. Siu'v. of N.S.W,, Palajontology, No. 

 iii. (1890). 



t Q.J.G.S. 1872. 



