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The genus Reinschia has previously been known by Reinschia 
australis Bertrand and Renault from New South Wales and Reinschia 
capensis (1) from Ermels in the Transvaal in South Africa. 
That the identical Australian species should also be found in 
Brazil is a matter of much palaeontological interest, since it not only 
shows acommon distribution in Gondwana-land of another class of 
plants, but it includes further evidence for uniformity of conditions 
and freedom of migration in early Gondwana time. lf Reinschia be 
regarded .as one of the characteristic genera of the lower Gondwana 
flora, we seem then to have at least one representative of this 
flora occurring in Brazil in latitude not many degrees from the 
equator. 
The occurrence of this species in boghead said to have come from 
the State of Bahia is in itself sufficient to warrant the presumption that 
the strata containing the boghead are Permo-Carboniferous, a con- 
clusion that finds some support in the record of the occurrence of 
Psaronius in the contiguous State of Piauhy. 
The Brazilian boghead will probably be more fully illustrated 
by the writer in connection with a subsequent discussion ofa number 
of American oil shales. 
Locality : «Puhuy, Bahia?, Brazil». Specimen presented to the 
United States National Museum by the Brazilian Commission to the 
Luisiana Purchase Exposition, at St. Louis, U. S. A., in 1904. Lot. 
B.R. 33 A. 
FUNGI 
PYRENOMYCETEAE 
Rosellinites 
Potonié, fl. Roth] Thuringen, 1893, p. 27. 
Rosellinites gangamopteridis n. sp. pl. V, figs. 1, 1a, 1 b, 
Perithecia between the veins and parallel to them, broadly oval 
.5-. 9mm mostly .75 mmin length, and averaging about .5 mm in, 
width, rounded at the ends, close but not contiguous, surrounded. 
by a very narrow furrow round-convex near the periphery, plano- 
(1) Renault, Sur Quelques Microorganismes des Combustibles Fossiles, 1900, pl. XX 
figs. 1 
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