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SrnENOI'TEKIS. 



V. 7288. PI. V, Figs. 2, 2a. 



A small portion of a frond, consisting- of a bipinnate, slightly 

 winged axis, with three fairly complete pinnae on one side and one 

 on the other. The pinnae are alternate, and lanceolate in contour. 

 The axis of each pinna is grooved. The pinnules are more or less 

 oval, and the margin is slightly lobed ( PL V, Fig. 2a). They recall 

 those figured by McCoy as Sphenopteris hastata. 



Port Stephens, New South Wales. Odinheimer Coll. 



V. 6251. PI. V, Fig. 3. 



A rather larger, and nearly complete fragment of an apical portion 

 of a frond, similar to the last. Other detached pinnae also occur on 

 the same specimen. 



Port Stephens, New South Wales. Odinheimer Coll. 



V. 7220. Two small fragments of detached pinnae, with oval, 

 slightly lobed segments, showing the characteristic nervation of 

 k. lubifolia very clearly. 



Port Stephens, New South Wales. Odinheimer Coll. 



4. Sphenopteris alata (Brongniart). 



1834-36. Pecopteris (data, Brongniart, Hist. Yeget. foss., p. 361, pi. cxxvii. 

 1836. Aspidites alatus, Goppert, Die Foss. Farn., p. 3oS. 

 1838. Sphenopteris alata, Steinberg, Flora Vonvelt, Heft vii, p. 131. 

 1845. 8. alata, var. exilis, Morris, in Strzelecki's New South Wales, p. 246, 



pi. vii, figs. 4, 4a. 

 1847. S. alata, McCoy, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. vol. xx, p. 149. 

 1S50. S. alata, linger, Gen. et Spec. Plant, foss., p. 124. 

 1869. S. (Hymen.) alata, Schimper, Traite, vol. i, p. 411. 

 1878. S. alata, Feistmantel, Pakeontogr. , Suppl. iii, p. 87. 



S. alata, var. exilis, Feistmantel, ibid., p. 88. 

 1883. S. alata, Tenison- Woods, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. viii, 

 p. 89. 

 S. alata, var. exilis, Tenison-Woods, ibid., p. 90. 

 1S86. S. alata, Johnston, Papers & Proc. E. Soc. Tasmania for 1885, 



p. 366. 

 1890. S. alata, Feistmantel, Mem. Geol. Surv. New South Wales, Pal., No. 3, 

 p. 88. 

 S. alata, var. exilis, Feistmantel, ibid., p. 89. 

 1902. S. alata, Arber, Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, vol. lviii, p. 9. 

 <$'. alata, Shirley, Bull. 18, Geol. Surv. Queensland, p. 11. 



Type. ? Museum of the University of Edinburgh. 



Frond bipinnate above, tripinnate below, sub- triangular in 



