Mesozoic.] PALZONTOLOGY OF VICTORIA. [ Plante. 
I have never seen this species more than about 4 lines wide, and 
as numerous fragments before me about 4 inches long are of this 
width throughout, the form must have been of a singularly narrow, 
long, linear shape ; and as the veins seem always to come off at 
right angles from the midrib, the Queensland specimen, figured by 
Mr. Carruthers in the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 
as of this species, is probably different. 
The great thickness of the substance of the blade and midrib 
makes this Teniopteris more like the Cycadeous Stangerites than 
any other I know. It is smaller and very much narrower in pro- 
portion and thicker than the specimens of the English Oolitic 
Teniopteris vittata (Phil.), with which I have carefully compared 
it, and which otherwise it most resembles. The 7. vittata has 
about 14 veins in the space of 2 lines at the margin, and they 
branch rather more frequently and irregularly than in our species. 
Very common in the olive Mesozoic carbonaceous strata of the 
Barrabool Hills. Common in the Mesozoic coal beds of Cape 
Patterson (C' 1) ; also (but broken into short fragments) in the 
dark ferruginous strata at Murundal, on the River Wannon, from 
whence our specimens were presented by Mr. E. Dacomb of Port- 
land. 
EXPLANATION OF FIGURES. 
Plate XIV.—Fig. 1, portion of young frond, imperfect at each end, natural size, showing the 
narrow linear proportion. Fig. la, portion ditto magnified. Fig. 2, portion of another speci- 
men of usual width, natural size. 
Puate XIV., Fia. 3. 
PECOPTERIS AUSTRALIS (Mor.) = PECOPTERIS 
SCARBURGENSIS (Bran MSS.). 
[Genus PECOPTERIS (Brong. pars). (Class Acotyledones; sub-class Acrogene, Order 
Filices. Fam. Sphenopteride). 
Gen. Char.—Frond bi- or tri-pinnatifid; pinne long, pinnatifid; pinnules oblong obtuse, 
sub-equal, attached to the rachis by the entire width and usually more or less united at base ; 
midrib strong, veins oblique or at right angles, simple or once or twice (rarely thrice) forked.] 
Description.—Frond bipinnate; pinne invariably oblique, alternate, usually 
about’ 3 or 4 inches long, about 1 inch apart, and about 14 inches wide, so that the 
tips of the pinnules of adjacent pinnz overlap. Pinnules oblique, slightly subfaleate, 
subalternate (nearly opposite), so close that they nearly or quite touch, lanceolate- 
ovate, semi-elliptically pointed at apex, nearly parallel-sided in the middle, and slightly 
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