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lateral margin; total width of frond four lines, about tem 
or eleven lateral veins in the space of two lines at the margin, 
both of ordinary specimens, four limes wide, and one specimen. 
nearly two inches long, but only one and a half lines wide. 
throughout. 
Localities—TasMANniIA. Referred to by M‘Coy (Dec. 2, Pal. 
Vic., p. 15), as occurring “in the same mass of stone with 
Glossopteris Browniana, in one of the Tasmanian specimens,” there- 
fore locality probably Mersey Coal Basin(?). N.S. WatEs— 
M‘Coy. Victrorta.—Bellarine, Barabool Hills, Cape Paterson,, 
Strezelecki Range, Murundal. QuEENSLAND.—Tivoli Mines (?). 
References.—M‘Coy, Trans. Roy. Soc. Vic., 1860, V., pp. 196 and. 
915°; 1bid, Dec: 11. 'Pal..of Vic; p. 15, pl- 14) f.51-2; (Carcutherss 
Quart. Journ., Geol. Soc., 1872, XXVIII. p. 355, t. 27, f. 6(%); 
Feistmantel, Geol. Survey, India, LX., pl. 4, pp. 123-124 ; Tenison- 
Woods, Proc. Lin. Soc. N.S. Wales, 1883, Vol. VIII. (iT 
Carruthersii, Woods), p. 117; R. Etheridge, jun., Cat. Aust. 
Fossils, 1878, p. 100. 
Sub-Order.—DictyoPTERIDEE f 
Nerves reticulate, fronds many times pinnate or pinnatifid + 
A. With a midrib. 
a. Costa conspicuous, frond simple. Glossopteris. 
6. Costa inzonspicuous, except in the middle, frond. 
quadrilobate. Sagenopteris. 
B. Without a costa. Gangamopéeris. 
GLOSSOPTERIS (Brongniart). 
Frond simple, elongately elliptical, acuminate, entire, 
coriaceous, petiolate, rhachis broad, gradually tapering up to. 
the apex. Veins emerging from the rhachis at an acute angle, 
from which, to the middle of the leaf, they form a hexagonally 
rhomboid net, thence to the edge somewhat more free, 
dichotomous, not so often anastomising, and forming very 
large rhomboidal areole. Sori rounded. 
GLossopTERIS Browniana (Brongniart). 
Frond simple, spathulate, or oblong, lanceolate, entire, 
attenuate at the base; costa thick, canaliculate, gradually 
contracting towards the apex; veins oblique, anastomosing,, 
hexagonal near the rhachis and elongate near the edge. 
Localities. — TASMANIA — Lower Coal Measures (Up. Pal.),. 
Mersey, Southport (Wintle), Lower Tamar (Wintle). N.S. WALES 
—Neweastle, Jerry’s Plain, Mulimbimba, Illawara. 
References. -- Brongniart, Prodrome, 1828, p. 54; Morris, 
Strezelecki’s Phys. Descrip., N.S. Wales and V.D. Land, 1845, p 
247,t. 1,f. 1; Schimper, Traité de Pal. Vég, 1869, p. 645 ; Carruther’s 
Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., 1872, XX VIIL., p. 354 ; Tenison- Woods, 
Proc. Lin. Soc., N.S. Wales, 1883, Vol. VIII, pp. 122-123; RB. 
Etheridge, jun., Cat. Aust. Fossils, 1878, p. 96. 
+ In Schimper and Zittel’s Paleontologie this is only a sub-order of 
Teeniopterideze. 
