Ill HISTORICAL SKETCH. 



IV. Europe. 

 (a) Russia. 

 In 1897, Amalitzky 1 announced the discovery of Glossopteris in 

 the Upper Permian beds of the Soukhona and Petite Dwina, Russia. 

 Attention was called to this discovery by a short note published by 

 Zeiller 2 in the following year. In 1901, Amalitzky 3 recorded 

 several further members of the Glossopteris flora from beds inter- 

 mediate between a Lower Permian horizon, with Lep telodendron and 

 Callipteris eonferta, and sediments containing Upper Zechstein 

 Mollusca. 



Glossopteris indica, Schimper. 



G. angustifolia, Feist. 



G. strieta, Bunb. 



Gungamopteris major. Feist. = G. cyclopter aides, var. major. Feist. 



G. eyclopteroides, Feist. 



Vertebraria. 



It may perhaps be mentioned that Schmalha.u sen i had already 

 recorded Phyllotheca from the Permian of Northern Russia. 



(b) Spitsbergen. 

 In 1897, Messrs. Newton & Teall described a few plants collected 

 between Cape Grant and Cape Stephen in Franz Josef Land. 

 Among them was one named Rhiptozamites (?) cf. Gopperti, 5 

 a species somewhat similar to certain leaves occurring in the rocks 

 of Gondwanaland. It seems, however, more probable that this 

 fossil is identical with the Mesozoic type of leaf now known as 

 Photnicopsis elongatus (Morris). 6 The other associated specimens 

 recall the plant -remains of a somewhat later period than the 

 Permo-Carboniferous, and in all probability are not of that age. 



V. Australasia. 

 («) New South Wales. 

 Glossopteris Broivniana was first described from Australia by 

 Brongniart 1 in 1828 from specimens derived from the coal-mines 



1 Amalitzky (97). - Zeiller (98-). 



3 Amalitzky (01), p. 592. 4 Schmalhausen 7!' . 



5 Newton & Teall (97), p. 504, pi. xli, figs. 6, 7. 



,; Seward (03'), p. 67. 



' Brongniart (28'), p. 54 : (28 3 ), p. 223, pi. lxii, figs. I. la. 



