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1430 GLEICHENIA, sp. 
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A single specimen, under number 1430, shows a fragment of a 
bipinnate fern frond, which is unquestionably a Gleichenia, conforming 
to the following description :— 
Pinne alternate, 5 mm. broad, linear and distant 5 mm. and approximate 
or slightly overlapping, more than 4.5 em. long, the apex unknown, uniformly 
inserted upon the rachis at an angle of 82°; pinnules alternate, ovate, unequal 
and crowded with the margins somewhat overlapping, the apex round-obtuse, the 
broad base distinctly rounded, the midrib usually at an angle of 55° with the 
rachis of the pinna. 
The very imperfectly preserved form of this specimen, and the 
fact that only one-fragment is available, makes the present determination 
open to some question, and under these circumstances it does not seem 
expedient to supply a specific name. So far as it is possible to reach 
a final conclusion, this plant appears to approximate closely to the 
European Pecopteris sulziana of Brongniart (4: pl. 105, f. 4), which 
differs from it in the shorter and more rounded pinnules attached 
throughout the full extent of the very broad base, their equal form and 
an angle of 75°. They resemble one another with respect to the inter- 
vals between the pinne (5 mm.) and in the proximate, slightly over- 
lapping pinnules. It is therefore possible that P. sulziana is the ances- 
tral form of the one now under consideration. 
1430 
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CLADOPHLEBIS SKAGITENSIS, n. Sp. 
This species is represented by several fragments of 
fronds, the largest of which is 5.5 em. long and 15 cm. 
broad in its complete state, but none of the fragments are 
altogether satisfactory for purposes of description. The 
following description has been obtained :— 
Pinnules distinct, somewhat faleate, 6 mm. broad at the base and 
7 mm. long, inserted on a rachis i.5 mm. broad, the apex acute. 
During the past year I have had occasion to recognize 
several species of Cladophlebis from the Kootanie of the 

SH Crow's Nest Coal Fields at Michel Station, and from the 
( 0 Lower Cretaceous of the Nordenskiold river, but the present 
pe specimen is not comparable with any of them (1). In 1893 
Lay Sir William Dawson recorded a fern from the Upper Cre- 
Fig-2.  taceous of Vancouver Island, under the name of Cladophle- 
Cladophlebis E À a : 
skagitensis, bis columbiana, but there is no ground for comparison here, 
nenp- x 1/1. for the reason that the plant so named can hardly be 
regarded as a Cladophlebis at all, and upon this point Sir William 
Dawson himself expressed doubt (12). A very close resemblance is to 
be noted between this plant and Fontaine’s C. virginiensis (19). The 
