96 ON THE FOSSIL FLORA OF THE COAL DEPOSITS OF AUSTRALIA, 



been submitted to him, he recommended that the beds in which 

 they occur should be colored as Upper Devonian. He said further 

 that amongst the fossils there was a new species of Archceojjteris 

 which he named A. howitti, a new species of Aneimites named 

 A. iguanensis and a species of Cordaites named G. australis. There 

 was no description given, but subsequently in the fourth decade of 

 the Paleontology of Victoria, plate 36, and p. 21 to 23, descrip- 

 tions were given of Archceojiteris howitti, and Cordaites australis, 

 together with the Siihenojrteris iguanensis already described, but no 

 further mention of the Aneimites. 



Family Neuropteride^e. 

 Fronds simple, once or more pinnate. Pinnae and pinnules 

 foliaceous and generally rather large, entire, veins numerous with 

 many forks diverging arcuately and reaching the margin either 

 directly from the rachis or from the costa. Only a very few 

 specimens are known with organs of fructification. 



Arch.eopteris. Dawson, loc. cit.* 

 Bi-pinnate, pinnae alternate, pinnules obliquely obovate, im- 

 bricate, opposite, with narrow decurrent base, a pinnule often on 

 the rachis between bases of pinnae; veins fine, divaricating, 

 dichotomous. Fertile pinnules in the midst of the infertile ones ; 

 sori ovate, in bunches at ends of much divided veins. Common in 

 Upper Devonian beds of Europe, N. America, and rare in the 

 lower Carboniferous. 



A. howitti, M'Coy, Pal. Yict. loc. cit. Pinnae upwards of four 

 inches long, and about one and a-half inches wide. Pinnules 

 subopposite, imbricate, obliquely ovato-rhomboidal, narrowed to 

 the base which articulates to the petiole so as to appear slightly 

 decurrent on one face, and obliquely inserted on the other. 

 Terminal pinnules nearly the size and shape of the lateral ones, 

 but equilateral. Average length of each pinnule, 1 inch, 1 line j 



* The genus was erected by Schimper (see Pal. Veg. vol, 1, p. 475), who 

 named it Pakeojiteris. This was a name already used by Geinitz, and the 

 above as a substitute was suggested by Dr. Dawson. 



