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Baiera bidens, Ten, Woods. 
Jean pauli a bidens, Tenison Woods, loe. cit., 1883, p. 132, Tab. IV, Pig. 3. 
Sp. Char. — “Frond broadly flabellate, segments somewhat short, often 
becoming broader towards the apex and ending in a short, wide bifurcation, 
or in a curved falcate, acute, or acuminate point; veins not conspicuous, 
numerous (6 to 10), parallel, not branching. The longest of the segments in 
the specimen figured is 55 mm., and the width is from 3 to 6 mm.” 
Ohs . — Mr. Tenison Woods placed it amongst the ferns and compared 
it with Uelminthostacliys and Schizcea. 
Locality and Horizon. — In the Burnett River coal seams, Queensland 
(Mesozoic). 
Baiera palmata, Ratte. 
Jcanpav.lia palmata, 1’atte, Proc. Linn. Soc., N. S. Wales, 18S7, 2d Ser.,Yol. I, Pt. 4, pp. 1078- 
1081, PL XVII. 
Salisburia palmata, Ratte, Ibidem, 1887, Vol. II, Pt. 1, p. 137. 
Ohs . — This fine species consists of a leaf of considerable size, with a 
quite distinct stalk, and with the leaf portion expanded in the form of a 
palm leaf. 
Mr. Ratte at first described it as Jeanpaulia (?) palmata. I have 
already, in the first part of this Memoir under Lit. No. 70 (New South 
Wales), pointed out that Jeanpaulia is to the greatest part synonymous with 
Baiera, and that in this case also the specific name would have to be changed, 
as there lias been already a Baiera palmata described by Prof. Ileer from the 
Jurassic formation of Siberia, and I then proposed to call it Baiera Jl ah cUi- 
formis. 
From a quite recently advertised paper by Mr. Ratte, I see that he 
places the fossil now with Salisburia ; but this name also would not be quite 
fortunately chosen, as these leaves are now comprised under the generic 
name G-ingko , Linn. I have with this indicated the whole state of the matter, 
and must for other information refer to Mr. Ratio’s above papers, pointing 
distinctly to the fact that a Baiera palmata, Heer, has previously been 
described. 
Locality and Horizon. — This fossil oceured in the Wianamatta Shales, 
New South Wales (Mesozoic). 
