BY THE REV. J. E. TENISON-WOODS, F.G.S., F.L.S. 93 



Sphenopteris crebr'a, n.s., plate 3, fig. 4. — Frond evidently tender 

 and membranaceous, bi-pinnate, pinnae wide, alternate, slightly 

 oblique, oblong quadrate, pinnules so close together as not to be 

 easily distinguished, faintly pinnatificl, lobes a little more oblique 

 than the pinnae, oblong ovate, with a slightly undulating margin ; 

 costa sending off veins which fork once, and the venules reaching 

 the margin. 



Ballinore Coalfield, Talbragar River, N.S. W. 



The spreading contiguous pinnae, and the very faint lobes, will 

 easily distinguish this species from the preceding, or from any 

 found in the Newcastle or Ipswich beds. 



Sphenopteris (hymen.) bailey ana, pi. 4, fig. 2, n.s. — Frond bi- 

 pinnatifid, membranaceous, rachis winged, pinnules alternate, 

 almost simple, broad at the base, becoming regularly narrower at 

 each lobe, so as to form an almost conical leaflet, emerging at an 

 open angle, and curving upwards, the lower shorter, the upper 

 longer and spreading ; lobes linear, narrow, rounded, very slightly 

 segmented, much longer in the upper pinnules, the terminal lobe 

 produced ; costa conspicuous, reaching the apex ; veins very fine, 

 emerging at an acute angle, bi-furcating immediately, sending a 

 venule to the end of each lobe. Ptosewood, Ipswich, one specimen. 



This fossil might be compared with some living species of 

 Hymenophyllum, but the peculiar stout, slightly lobed pinnae give 

 it a character not easily referable to any recent or fossil form. 



Sphenopteris — Aneimioides. — This subdivision of the genus 

 Sphenopteris is founded on the general resemblance to Aneimia, 

 a well-marked genus almost confined to America, with fertile 

 and barren fronds, the fertile being a copiously branched panicle, 

 and the barren having numerous radiating free forked viens. The 

 definition of Schimper for this subdivision of the Sphenopteridem 

 is as follows : — 



Pinnules somewhat broad, narrowed below, ovately lobed, lower 

 lobes 3 to 4 in number, superior entire, coarsely toothed or sinuate, 

 all roundly obtuse or sub-acuminate ; costa of the pinnules well 

 marked, evanescent, veins and venules numerous, diverging in a 

 somewhat arcuate manner from a sub-erect base. Dichotomous. 



