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In Australia there are amongst the l'ossil plants representatives of 
three of the above genera. 
Tceniopteris Daintreei, M‘ Coy . 
PL XXVII, Figs. 4, 5 ; PI. XXVIII, Figs. 0, G«. 
Tceniopteris Daintreei, M‘Coy, Prodr. Pal., Viet., 1875, Dec. II, p. 15, PI. XIV, figs. 1, 2. 
„ „ Feistmantel, toe. cit., 1878-1S79, p. 110, PI. XIV, figs. 2, 8; p. 1G9, 
PI. XII, figs. 5, 5 a. 
,, ., Tenison Woods, loc. cit., 1883, p. 117. 
Sp. Char . — Fronde (pinnulis ?) longissima, lineari parallela, coriacea 
marginibus Integra ; nervo medio crasso ; nervis secundariis suh-angulo recto 
an suberecto eggredientibus, plurimis furcatis differentihus in locis longitudinis 
nervorum. 
c£ Frond very long, linear, parallel-sided, substance thick, edges straight; 
costa very strong, veins extending at right angles from the midrib to the 
lateral margins, a few straight and simple, the greater number once forked at 
a variable distance between the midrib and lateral margin.” 
Ohs . — This species was originally described by Prof. M £ Coy from 
Victoria ; later on Mr. Carruthers described a Tceniopteris from Queensland, 
which, although rather different from M £ Coy’s type specimens, he yet identi- 
fied with M £ Coy’s species. Mr. Tenison Woods, however, thinks that this 
Queensland form is so far different as to deserve of being treated as a new 
species.* But as it so happened there was amongst the specimens sent to me 
by Mr. Clarke the true T. Daintreei from Queensland, while the one figured 
by Mr. Carruthers will have to be treated as a different species. 
From the size and form of tlie leaf, and from the distribution of the 
veins, I should think that this species ought to be placed in the genus 
Angioptericlium , Scliimp. 
Locality and Horizon. — At Cape Paterson, Barrabool Hills, and on the 
Wannon Biver — all in Victoria (M £ Coy mentions it also from Tasmania, but 
this is doubtful)!; at Southgate, Clarence Biver, in New South Wales ; at 
theTalgai Diggings, on the Condamine Biver, in Queensland (Upper Mesozoic). 
[* The first to suggest the separation of the Queensland fern from the typical T. Daintreei was Prof. 
M‘Coy. (See Prod. Pal. Vicfc., Dec. 2, p. 16.) — R. E., jun.] 
[f I am not aware that Prof. M‘Coy ever referred to this plant as a Tasmanian species. Prof. Feistmantel 
lias evidently obtained his information from Mr. E. M. Johnston’s Paper so frequently quoted in this Memoir. 
Therein, under Tceniopteris Daintreei, the latter says : — “ Referred to by M‘Coy (Dec. 2, Pal. Vic., p. 15) as 
occurring ‘in the same mass of stone with Glossopteris Browniana, in one of the Tasmanian specimens,’ there- 
fore locality probably Mersey Coal Basin (?).” By placing the words from ‘in’ to ‘specimens,’ inclusive, in 
inverted commas, Mr. Johnston clearly wishes them to be understood as a verbatim quotation from M‘Coy’s 
Decade. They are, however, nothing of the kind, and M‘Coy makes no reference to T. Daintreei occurring in 
Tasmania on the page quoted. The fossil which M'Coy there speaks of as in company with Glossopteris Browniana 
is the Becopteris australis, Morris. — R. E., jun.] 
