48 GLOSSOPTERIS. 



III. Type of Glossopteris tortnosa. Lateral nerves sinuate, or tortuous. 



Frond fairly narrow. Meshes on either side of the midrib large, broadly 

 polygonal, the succeeding meshes narrower, elongate - polygonal or 

 trapezoidal. 9. G. tortuosa, Zeiller. 



Frond fairly broad. Meshes broad, irregular, of nearly equal size throughout 

 the lamina and very elongate. 10. G. divergens, Feist. 



IV. Type of Glossopteris dccipiens. Midrib impersistent in the upper portion of 



the frond, at a considerable distance from the apes. 

 Frond narrowly spathulate, truncated at the base. Meshes narrow, oblong. 



11. G. dccipiens, Feist. 

 Frond oblong-oval, petiolate. Meshes broad, oblong. 



12. G. longicaulis, Feist. 



V. Type of Glossopteris orbicularis. Fronds orbicular, subemargiuate. Meshes 



broad, oblong-polygonal. 13. G. orbicularis, Feist. 



Fronds and Scale-fronds of Glossopteris. 



1. Glossopteris Browniana, Brongniart (pars). 



(PL II, Figs. 1-5 ; PL III, Figs. 1, 2; Text-fig. 16.) 



1828. Glossopteris Browniana, Brongniart (pars), Prodr. Hist. Ve'get. foss., 



p. 54. 

 1830. G. Browniana, var. australasica, Brongniart, Hist. Veget. foss., p. 223, 



pi. lxii (pars). 

 1836. G. Broivniana, Goeppert, Die Foss. Farm, p. 346, pi. xxi, figs. 9, 10. 

 1845. G. Browniana, Morris, in Strzelecki's New South Wales, p. 247, pi. vi, 



figs. 1, la. 

 1847. G. Browniana, McCoy, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., vol. xx, p. 150. 

 G. linearis, McCoy, ibid., p. 151, pi. ix, figs. 5, oa. 



1849. G. Browniana, Dana, iu Wilkes' U.S. Explor. Exped., vol. x, 



pp. 716, 717, pi. xii, fig. 13«, and ?figs. 13, 13*, 13c. 

 G. elongata, Dana, ibid., p. 718, pi. xiii, tig. 4. 

 G. reticulum, Dana, ibid., p. 717, pi. xiii, fig. 2. 

 G. linearis, Dana, ibid., p. 718. 



1850. G. Browniana, Unger, Gen. et Spec. Plant, foss., p. 169. 

 G. linearis, Unger, ibid., p. 169. 



1861. G. Browniana, var. australasica, Bunbury, Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, 



vol. xvii, p. 329, pi. viii, tig. 5. 

 1867. G. Browniana, Tate, Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, vol. xxiii, p. 140, 



pi. vi, figs. 5a, 5b, la, 7b. 

 G. Sutherlandi, Tate, ibid., p. 140, pi. vi, figs. 2a, 2b. 

 1869. G. Browniana, Schimper, Traite, vol. i, pp. 645, 616. 

 1872. G. Browniana, Carruthers, Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, vol. xxviii, p. 354. 

 1876. G. Browniana, Feistmantel, Bee Geol. Surv. India, vol. ix, pt. 3, p. 72. 

 1878. G. Broivniana, Feistmantel, Paheontogr., Suppl. iii, pp. 78, 90, 154, 



pi. viii, figs. 3, 3«, 4 ; pi. x, figs. 1, 3, 4, 5, 7 ; pi. xi, fig. 1 ; 



pi. viii (xxvi), tig. 1. 



