1300 ADDITIONS TO THE FOSSIL FLORA OF EASTERN AUSTRALIA, 
ADDITIONS TO THE FOSSIL FLORA OF EASTERN 
AUSTRALIA. 
By R. Etheridge, Junior. 
(Pis. XXXVII.-XXXVIII.). 
Since the appearance of Dr. Feistmantel’s Work on the “ Palae- 
ozoic and Mesozoic Flora of Eastern Australia,”^ and the Memoir 
by the Rev J. E. T.-Woods, “ On the Fossil Flora of the Coal 
Deposits of Australia,”! .several additional plant remains have 
come to light from various geological horizons in New South 
Wales and Queensland. 
In the present paper I purpose describing three ferns from 
Queensland. One is from the Lower Carboniferous of the Drum- 
mond Range, one from the Lower IMesozoic of the Ipswich Basin, 
and the third from the Upper Mesozoic series of the Croydon Gold- 
field. They will be descrihed in the above order : — 
I. Aneimites, Dawson. 
In his work previously referred to. Dr. Feistmantel has given 
several illustrations of tiie characteristic and most abundant fern 
of the Lower Carboniferous rocks of New South Wales under the 
name of ^hacopteris incequilitera, Gbp])., sp. 
A casual examination of the fine specimen now imder descrip- 
tion would tempt the observer to place the plant in close conti- 
guity to this species, but a furtlmr study at once reveals many 
important difi'erences. Thus ^In Rhacopteris inmquilatera, the 
frond, so far as it is at piesent known to us, is simply pinnate ; 
in the specimen it is bipinnate. The pinnae of the former are 
* Palaeozoische unci Mesozoische Flora cles ustlichen Australiens. Palaeon- 
tographica, 1878-79, Suppl. Bd. III. Leif. 3, Hefts 2-4. 
t Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales for 188.3, [1884], p. 37. 
