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The Eey. J. E. Tenison Woods does not quote this species as a Queensland fern, 
in its place records the above species S. lohifolia from near Cracow Creek, Dawson 
iver. This is, of course, quite possible ; but after a very careful examination of tlie 
present specimens, assisted by Mr. T. Whitelegge, my Colleague in the Australian 
useum, T can come to no other conclusion than that S.Jlrxuosa must also be added to 
rhe list. 
Loc. and Horizon. Dawson River (TT. Machny, Colin. De Vis) — Upper or 
' reshw'ater Group of the Bowen River Coal Pield. 
SpiiEifOPTEiiis chebra. Ten. Woods ? 
^P^mopteris crebi-a, Ten. Woods, Proo. Linn. Sue, N. S. Wales, 1883, viii., Pt. 1, p. 93, t. 3, f. 4. 
Sp. Char. Frond evidently tender and membranaceous, bipinnate ; piunse wide, 
ernate, slightly oblique, oblong-quadrato, pinnules so close together as not to be 
easily distinguished, faintly pinnatitld ; lobes a little more oblique than the pinnte, 
nng-ovate, with a slightly undulating margin ; cost® sending off veins which fork 
and the venules reaching the margin. (Ten. Woods.) 
Ohs. Specimens before mo are not sulEciontly perfect to show the pinnae, but, 
nr as one can judge froai the brief characters of the pinnules, and the indistinct 
1 ^“^’;®’ nre the above species. The pinnules are quite close together, almost over- 
“■Pping in places, but this may be duo, perhaps, to some extent to pressure ; oblong- 
3'11 °''dliue, and with practically an entire margin. The veins fork only once, and 
no venules reach the margin; of the former there are three on each side the 
"Midrib to the pinnule. 
specimens are distinguished from Sphenopieris exilis, Morris, S. lohifoliat 
ffermanm, McCoy, S. jlexuosa, McCoy, and S. plumosa, by the almost entire 
pinnules ; from /S', haslafa, McCoy, by tho differently formed pinnule, 
W 3 present examples varying from oval-pyriform to oblong-ovate. Mr. 
the b'* ®.P®3ks of the lobes of the pinnules, but if these arc to any extent developed in 
diat" Coal Field examples, our Queensland fossils must then be considered 
, for the p)lnnules in the latter would certainly not come under this category, 
j Horizon. Dawson River (H. MacTcaj ; Colin. De Via) — Upper or 
«hwater Group of the Bowen River Coal Field. 
Family— PA LBEOPTERIDEA . 
Genus — ANEIMITES, Dawson, I'SGO. 
' (Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., xvii., p. 5.) 
. Aneimites AUSTTiTSA, Etheridge fid. 
mistrina, Etheridge fil., Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 1888, iii., Pt. 3, p. 1304, t. 37. 
cariuf^t^ Frond elougately expanding, bipinnate ; rachis moderately broad, 
alojogt ’ sub-alternate, elongate, attenuating but slowly towards their apices, 
carinate, frequently zigzag ; pinnules petiolate, rather 
obovate shape on different ])arts of the frond, but generally ovate or 
to tjjg Py^'forra, sometimes a little sub-imbricate, pu’oxlmal or inner margins qMrallel 
^oward. upper and distal margins broadly rounded, and all entire ; pinnules 
] 1 0^ **^6 pinn® becoming more truly pyriform or pyriform-deltoid, tho 
uni-, bi-, or tri-lobed ; qjinnules of the lowest (preserved) pinn® 
iV'ell ® *^P'eal lobe more or less lanceolate. Petioles short and straight. Nerves 
®u, numerous, bi- or perhaqjs tri-diehotomous. 
