166 on the fossil flora of the coal deposits of australia, 



Explanation of Plates. 



Note. — The heliotypes though at first sight indistinct, will bear 

 examination with a hand lens, when all the detail will be distinctly 

 seen. Type specimens of all new species, except Sph. bayleyana, 

 are in the Macleayan Museum. 



Plate I. 



2. Sphenopteris Jlabellata., var. erecta. 



3. Walchia milneana. 



Plate III. 



Fig. 1. Cunninghamites australis. 



2. Ditto terminal branch with cluster of male amenta. 



3. Portion of branch of same. 



4. Sphenopteris crebra. 



5. Male amentum of Walchia milneana. 



6. Gleichenia lineata. 



7. Trichomanides spinifolius. 



Plate IV. 

 Fig. 1. Cunninghamites australis. 



Sphenopteris bayleyana, 



3. Jeanpaulia bidens. 



4. Sphenopteris glossophylla. 



Plate Y. 

 Brachyphyllum crassum. 



