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The home of the Lomarioims triquctra is Nepal. Loma- 

 rmpsis bilinica, Ett., of the fossil flora of Bilin, in Bohemia, is 

 nearly related to the above-described fossil fern ; the former 

 may be distinguished from the latter not only by the irregu- 

 larly-notched edge of the frond, but also by the more acute 

 angles of the secondary nerves at their origin. 



Aspidium otagoicum, sp. no v. 



Plate XXIV., fig. 'd. 



A.foliis bipinnatis, pinnis lanccolatis, elongaiis, pinnaiisectisj 

 pinnnlis ohlongis, apice ohtusis, angiilo acuta insertis, inciso- 

 dcntatis vol lohatis ; nervationc Pecoptcridis cupolystichi, 7iervo 

 primario hasi promincnte, nervis secundarils paiicis, apicem 

 versus ahhreviatis, sub angulis acutissimis egredientibus. 



Locality • Shag Point, Otago (Otago Museum). \E.r Coll. 

 Geol. Surv. Otago, 1864 ; Hector.] 



This fragment may be completed to form a lanceolate- 

 elongate frond, which betrays the greatest similarity with 

 several species of Aspidium. A. stramineuin, Kaulf., which 

 occurs in Australia and Mauritius, seems to be the most 

 nearly related species (compare Ettingsh., Ferns, pi. ex., 

 fig. 3 ; pi. cxii., fig. 7). Among the fossil ferns A. serru- 

 laium, Heer, from the brown-coal flora of Bornstiidt, seems 

 to approach nearest to this fern in consequence of the shape 

 of the frond, and of the junction at acute angles of the smaller 

 fronds. The relation between this fern and A. oerstedi, Heer, 

 from the flora of the Atane sti'ata, is more distant, notwith- 

 standing both species show the same type of nerve-system. 

 More exact comparisons can be made when better-j)reserved 

 remains are submitted. 



Aspidium tertiario-zeelandicum, sp. nov. 

 Plato XXIV., figs. 4, ia. 



A. pinnis lanccolato-linearibus, pinnatipar litis vel lohatis, 

 laciniis vel lobis ovalibus vel ohlongis, integcrrimis ohtusiusculis ; 

 nervationc Gonioptcridis ; nervo primario 2)romincnte recto, 

 nervis secundariis sub angulis 70^-80^ orientibus, proviinentihus, 

 margincm versus plus mimisve arcuato-convergentibus ; nervis 

 tertiariis angulis 40^-50^ exeuntibus, simplicibus, inferiorihus 

 rectis, supcrioribus paullo arcuatis, intimis anastomosantibus. 



Localities : Shag Point (Canterbury Museum). [Ex Coll. 

 Geol. Survey of N.Z. : Eeport to the Director " On the Shag 

 Point Coalfields," by Julius von Ilaast, Ph.D., F.B.S. ; Geol. 

 Eep., 1872,p.U8.^ Dunstan (Otago I^luseum). [Ex Coll. 

 Geol. Surv. Otago, ISGl.] 



Notwithstanding that only a few small fragments of 

 fronds of this species are submitted, it has been possible to 



