lx HISTORICAL SKETCH. 



Tasinanian specimens of Glossopteris, Gangamopteris, and other- 

 genera are given. 



In 1890, Feistinantel ' published the following list of plants from 

 the Mersey River Beds : — 



Thyllothcca australis, Biong. 



Glossopteris communis, Feist. = G. indica, Schiruper. 



G. Browniana, Brong. 



67. spathulato-cordata, Feist. = cf. G. orbicularis, Feist. 



G. reticulum, Dana = G. Browniana, Brong. 



Gangamopteris cyclopteroides, Feist. 



G. cyclopteroides, var. subauriculnta, Feist. = G. cyclopteroides, Feist. 



G. cyclopteroides, var. attenuata, Feist. = G. cyclopteroides, Feist. 



G. angustifolia, McCoy. 



G. spathulata, McCoy = G. cyclopteroides, Feist. 



G. obliqua, McCoy = G. cyclopteroides, Feist. 



Noeggerathicpsis Hislopi (Bunb.). 



N. spathulata (Dana) = N. Hislopi (Bunb.). 



Squamae gymnospermarum. 



Samaropsis, sp. (?). 



In 1892, Johnston 2 described some further plants from the Henty 



River. 



Glossopteris Browniana, Brong. 



G. ovata, sp. nov. — ? G. ampla, Dana. 



Johnston, 3 in 1894, described a new plant from Ida Bay, South- 

 port, Tasmania, as Pecopteris lunensis, which was found associated 

 with Vertebraria australis. He states that this species occurs in 

 beds of both Permo-Carboniferous and Mesozoic age in Tasmania. 

 Judging from his drawing, it would appear to be of a type more 

 in common with members of the Triassic flora than with the 

 Permo-Carboniferous. 



Two years later, 4 the same author gave a complete list of the 

 Palaeozoic and Mesozoic plants known from Tasmania, and also 

 figures a fine specimen of Sphenopteris lobifolia, Morr., from 

 Seymour, under the name, S. Iforrisiana. 



1 Feistmantel (90), p. 60. 



2 Johnston (92). 



s Johnston (94), pt. i, p. 170, pi. i, figs. 5-7. 



4 Johnston (94), pt. ii, table opposite p. 62, and p. 58, figs. 14. 15. 



