1302 ADDITIONS TO THE FOSSIL FLORA OF EASTERN AUSTRALIA, 
(h ). Aneimites, Dawson ; typified by ^Cyclopteris acadica, 
Dawson ; with more or less flabellate leaves. Carboni- 
ferous. ^ 
(c). Nejyhropteris, Sehimper ; after the type of CydopUris 
orhicxdaris, Brongniart. Carboniferous. 
Dawson regarded his Aneimites as a sub-genus of C yclopteris, 
but if the separation from the latter is worth anything, to my 
mind it merits generic rank, and will be so considered here. 
In originally proposing Aneimites^ * Pr^cipal Dawson evidently 
had in mind the British Coal Measure fern, 6'2)Jieno2)teris adianioides, 
Lind, and Hutton, so much .so, that to this he at first referred the 
plant afterwards called by him^neimites ( C yclopteris ) acadica.y 
This being the case we may justly include S2dieno2)teris adian- 
toides in Aneimites. Furthermore, it is to be regretted that 
Principal Dawson did not refer to this obvious fact in his second 
and more detailed account of the Canadian fern. 
The strong^, resemblance borne by the Queensland specimen to 
the British Aneimites adiantoides, L. and H., sp., and in a less 
degree to A. acadica, Dn., renders it exceedingly probable that it 
.should be placed i^the genus in question. I shall therefore speak 
of it in future as Aneimites austrina, 
(/ 
My friend Mr. R. Kidston, F.G.S., reminds me that C yclopteris 
ralida, Dawson, which has been taken as the type of his genus 
Trijdiylopteris by Sehimper, is undistinguishable from Aneimites, a 
fact in which I cordially agree. 
The pinnae of A. austrina are about tlii’ee inches long, the entire 
frond, as preserved, occupying a space of more than one foot. The 
frond is generally flabellate, and bipinnate, there being portions of 
eight pinnae on one side, alternating with seven on the other, of a 
rather broad rachis. The pinnae are elongate and generally 
narrow, hardly expanding from a uniform width, and decreasing 
• Quart. Journ. CtCoI. Soc. I860. XVII. p. 5. 
tThe Fossil Plants of the Lower Carboniferous and Millstone Grit 
Formations of Canada. Geol. Survey Canada, 1873, p. 26. 
