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dientibus, confertis, O'G-fPS mm. distantibus (prope rliacliim), marginem 
versus dicliotomis, tenuibus. 
“ Frond clongately obovate, simple, base attenuate, apex (?) ; rachis 
thick, grooved or striated ; veins emerging at an angle of 20 to 25 degrees, 
close, near the rachis (PG to 0‘8 mm. apart, slender, dichotomous towards 
the margin.” 
Obs . — I have compared this species with Tceniopteris (? Macroltcni- 
opterisj superba, Saporta (Veg. Triassic ct Jur., Pal. franc., p. 439, Tab. Gl, 
G2), from the French Rhat. 
Locality and Horizon . — Gib Tunnel, near Bowral, New South Wales 
(Wianamatta beds) ; also Kenny’s Hill (Tenison Woods, Lit. No. 54). 
Mr. Tenison Woods, in his paper “ On the Wianamatta Shales ” (sec 
Lit. No. 54), quotes it also from ML Victoria, New South Wales ; ITawkesbury 
rocks (Mesozoic). 
Genus- CYCADOPTERIS, Zigno. 
Obs . — Only quite recently a fossil fern has been figured from the 
Wianamatta Shales and referred doubtfully to the above genus. Put unfor- 
tunately the venation is rather indistinctly preserved, so that it is rather 
difficult to decide whether the reference is correct or not. 
The genus has been established by Count de Zigno for certain ferns of 
the Jurassic (including Liassic) formation. 
Cycadopteris (?) scolopendrina, Latte. 
Cycadopteris (?) scolopendrina , F. Batte, loc. ci/., 1887, p. 1081, PI. XVJ, f. 5. 
Obs . — As already mentioned, the specimen is not very favourably pre- 
served, so that the venation is not distinctly seen, and one cannot decide with 
certainty whether it is a Cycadopteris or a Lomatopteris, Schimp. 
Locality and Horizon. — Mr. Ratte does not mention any special locality, 
but describes the fossil only as coming from the Wianamatta Shales, New 
South "Wales (Mesozoic). 
Now follows a group of fossil ferns which contains especially two 
genera, which are of great importance and interest in connection with the 
