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ANNULARIA. 



shows three nodes and portions of four internodes. The smaller 

 fragment measures 10 cm. by 3-5 cm. and shows two nodes. 



From Maggie's Mine (Ecca Series), Middelburg District, Trans- 

 vaal. Presented hy David Draper, Esq., 1897. 



9. Phyllotheca, sp. (from South America). 



Bodenbender 1 has recorded this genus from Argentina, but no 

 particulars of tbe specimens are given. 



Genus ANNUL ARIA, Sternberg, 1821. 



[Flora Vorwelt, Heft ii, p. 32.] 



Calamitean leaves, borne iu whorls at the nodes of articulated 

 branches, united into a sheath at the base ; the free segments 

 usually linear, spreading, and of unequal length. 



[Annularia ?] • australis, Feistmantel. 



(Text-fig. 10.) 



1866. ? Asterophyllites, Clarke, Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, vol. xxii, p. 445. 

 1878. Annularia australis, Feistmantel, Paheontogr., Suppl. iii, p. 154, 



pi. vii, figs. 5-6«. 

 1883. A. australis, Tenison-Woods, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, 



vol. viii, p. 86. 



1890. A. australis, Feistmantel, Mem. Geol. Surv. New South Wales, Pal., 



No. 3, p. 82, pi. xii, figs. 1, 2. 



1891. A. austrahs, Etheridge, juu., Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, 



ser. n, vol. v, p. 47, pis. ii, iii. 



Type. ? Australian Museum, Sydney. 



Feistmantel 3 has described this species as follows: — Stem 

 slender, articulate ; leaves whorled, as many as ten leaves in a 

 whorl, incurved, spreading, membranaceous, lanceolate-spathulate 

 up to 18 mm. in length, traversed by a median nerve. 



The two specimens from Greta, New South Wales, figured by 

 Feistmantel are very fragmentary. In 1891 Etheridge figured 

 some more perfect specimens from Anvil Creek, which he compared 



1 Bodenbender (96), table opposite p. 772. 



2 This generic name is placed in square brackets to imply that, in the author's 

 opinion, the species may have to be transferred eventually to some other genus. 



3 Feistmantel (90 1 ), p. 82. 



