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ded ; for the differences hetween them are probably not more than 
are to be found at different points in the fronds of asingle plant. 
No additional illustration of Sphenopteris hastata have heen 
given by other authors, who quote the original diagnosis. (1) By the 
position and form of the pinnae anu to some extent by the lobation 
the plant from Brazil is comparable to the closely related Australian 
species described by Brongniart (2) as Pecopteris alate from the New 
Castle series in New South Wales, while a still closer similarity exists 
between it and the small form of Brongniart’s species :described by 
Morris (3) as the variety eailis. 
Locality : Estrada Nova, near Minas, Santa Catharina. About 
40 meters below the barro Branco coal, or approximately 145 
meters helow the Iraty black shale. Lot 3928. 
Sphenopteris sp. 
Pl. Vi. Fig. 2 
The minute and poorly preserved specimen shown in Pl. VI. 
Fig. 2, is the sole representative of another Sphenopterid in the 
collection. By its small, oblique, round-truncate, rather thick lobes, 
which are slightly imbricated, it suggests several species of the Nor- 
thern Permo-Carboniferous, especially Callipterts Currctiensis Zeil- 
ler (4),and Callépteris dtabolica Zeiller from the Permian of the basin of 
Brives in France, and the Sphenopteris Ohmanniana shown by 
Potonié from the Permian of Thuringia(5). The fragment in hand, 
while unlike any other described in the lower Gondwana flora, is 
extremely interesting as indicating the presence of a form that is 
probably related to, if not identical with, some species of the Nor- 
thern Permo-Carhboniferous flora. 
Locality : Treviso road near Minas, Santa Catharina; horizont 
just above that of the Orleans conglomerate. Lot 3587. 
(1) Bipinnate, pinnae long, aculcly Janceolate with a broadly alate margin, pinnules 
elliptical, obscurely undulate-dentate, having three obsolete lobes on cach side, nerves 
bipinuate, iwo branches reaching cach lohe of the margin, Ann, mag. N, Iles, VOk. XY 
1847., p. 149. 
(2) Hist. Vee. Foss. 1834, p. 361, pl. exxvii, The specific name plerophora was sub- 
stitulel by Pres] (Sternberg; Versuch. Flora d. Vorwelt. vol. Il, pag. 22)) for Spheno-~ 
ptevis alata (Brongn,) Sternb., the latt:r name having heen given by Brongniart to 
another speci2s publish-d in an earlier fascicle (p. 180) of th» «Histoire», The Austra- 
lian plant should therefore be designated Sphenapteris pteropiora Prest. 
(3) In Strzelecki : New South Wales, 1840, p. 24), pl vil, figs. 4, 4 a. 
(4) FL, foss. bassin houill, et p-rm. d. Brives, i802, ps. 36, 87, pl. vii, fig. 3,5. 
(5) Die Flora d. Rothlieg. v. Thuringen, (93, p. 36, pl. iv. fig. 3. 
