midrib, upper one furcate ; the pinnules towards the apex of the frond arc 
rather sharply threc-lobed and decurrent, the veins becoming forked in each 
lobe.” 
Locality and Horizon. — In the Upper Coal Measures of Newcastle, 
and at Mulubimba, New South Wales ; also on the Dawson Diver, Queens- 
land (Permo-Carboniferous). It. M. Johnston quotes it from the Upper 
Coal Measures (Mesozoic) of the New Town Coal Basin, in Tasmania. 
Sphen opteilis plumosa, M i Coy . 
Sphenopteris plumosa, M‘Coy, loc. cit., 1817, p. 150, PI. X, figs. 3, 3 a. 
„ „ Peistmantel, Joe. cit., 1878, p. 88. 
,, „ Tenison Woods, loc. cit., 1883, p. 91. 
Sp. Char. — Fronde bipinnata; pinnis curvatis, elongatis, angustis, 
pluniosis ; pinnulis confertis obliquis, ovatis acuminatis, prof unde incisolobatis, 
apicali trilobata ; nervis crassiusculis, numerose fur cat is, ramis septem aut 
octo lobos intrantibus. 
C£ Frond bipinnate ; pinnae curved, elongate, narrow, plumose, margin 
slightly alate to the rachis ; pinnules close, oblique, ovate pointed, deeply 
cleft into about four oblique mucronatc lobes on each side, exclusive of the 
largely trilobed apex ; veins strong, much branched, so that about six branches 
reach the margin of each of the lobes of the lower side, and seven to each of 
those of the upper margin.” 
Locality and Horizon. — In the shale of Mulubimba, New South Wales 
(Newcastle beds, ? Permian). 
Sphenopteris glossophylla, Ten. Woods. 
Sphenopteris ylossoplu/Ua, Tenison Woods, loc. cit., 1883, p. 91, PI. 4, f. 4. 
“ Frond very small, with a somewhat thick rachis, repeatedly forking 
and bearing small, entire, alternate, ovate leaves on which the venation cannot 
be seen.” 
Locality and Horizon. — At Baltimore Hill, Talbragar Diver Coal-field, 
near Dubbo, New South Wales (? Hawkesbury rocks, ? Triassic). 
Genus — TDICIIOMANIDES. 
Triciiomanides laxum, Ten. Woods. 
Trichomanicles laxum, Tenison Woods, loc. cit., 1883, p. 95, PI. 10, f. 2. 
Sp. Char~“ Dhizome creeping, long, slender, sending up at distinct 
irregular intervals delicate, membranaceous, pinnate fronds ; pinnae emerging 
