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He remarks that they may be the same as Tenison-Woods' Taxites- 

 medius. The figure of the latter species^^ does not assist in the deter- 

 mination. Generic determinations of these specimens is not an 

 easy matter, but the resemblance between these specimens and 

 Feistmantel's figures of Taxites planus^'^ is so very close that they 

 are united -with that species. Distinction between the genera 

 Taxites and Palissya is not easy without very well-preserved speci- 

 mens. It is not certain that Taxites medius, Tenison-Woods, is 

 identical A\ith T. planus. 



The fronds of the Queensland specimens are up to 11 cm. long, 

 with leaves 1-5 cm. long and -75 mm. A\ide, traversed by a single 

 median vein and with a rather acute tip. 



The general appearance of the fronds suggests a difference in 

 habit from the fronds of species of Palissya in the Jurassic of India. 



Localities : — {Walloon Series) : Stewart's Creek, Stanwell 

 (F 721) ; Stewart's Creek, Rockhampton (F 80) ; Road between 

 Portions 155 and 157, Parish Biarra (1414). 



Figured specimen : The original of Plate 9, fig. 4, is specimen 

 F 721 in the collection of the Queensland Greological Survey. 



GYMNOSPERMOUS SEEDS. 



(Plate 8, figs. 6, 7, 8, 9.) 



In the Ipswich Series at Denmark Hill, Ipswich, seeds of various 

 types are very abundant and large collections have been obtained. 

 It is not intended to publish here a detailed account but rather to 

 indicate the different types briefly, leaving the results of a more 

 detailed examination till a later date. 



Some of these seeds have already been described and figured by 

 Shirley as Beania geminata ;^^ Seward concludes, from the figures 

 given by Shirley, that there is little or no evidence of generic identity 

 with Beania.^^ An examination of the specimens shows, however, 

 that some of them are very similar to Beania and may be generically 

 identical. In that figured on Plate 8, fig. 9, there is a fairly stout 

 axis bearing a few secondary axes at right angles, and these 

 secondary axes bear at the distal end two oval seeds. These show 

 a general resemblance to Beania gracilis, Carruthers. 



" Tenison-WoodB (83), p. 160, t. 9, flg. 3. ** Shirley (98), p. 16, t. 20. 



*• Feistmantel (79), t. 13 ; t. 14, fik's. 1, 2, 4, 5. ** Seward (00), p. 42, 272. 



