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now in tlie Macleay Museum, Sydney University, I found several well-marked and well- 
preserved examples of Alethopleris australis, Morris, sp., and Tatiiopferis. This will 
naturally assign, instead of a Palaeozoic age, one quite in accordance with the other 
beds of the Ipswich Basin. Many other deposits containing Mesozoic plants exist in 
Queensland, but it is not deemed necessary to mention them here. 
Olossopteris has, on several occasions, been quoted as occurring with other Mesozoic 
plants in Queensland. I can only say, however, that during an experience extending 
over ten years, not one single instance of Q-lossopteris associated with a flora repre- 
senting beds higher than the Freshwater Series of the Bowen River Coal Field has come 
under my notice. This sharply defined line, so far as I know, appears to hold good 
equally well for New South Wales. There is no reliable recoi’d of this genus being 
found at any horizon higher than the Upper, or Newcastle Coal Measures in the latter 
Province. Allied genera, such as Sngenopteris, do occur, but not the true Qlossopteris, and 
it is probable that in cases, such as above referred to, the one has been mistaken for the 
other.* 
DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SPECIES OCCURRING IN THE BURRUM FORMATION 
(LOWER TRIAS-JURA). 
Kingdom — PLANT.®. 
Section— CRYPTOGAMIA. 
Class — Acotyledones. 
Order-FILICES. 
Family— SPHENOPTEEIDA:. 
Qe?ius — SPHENOPTERIS, Brongniart, 1828. 
(Prod. Hist. Veg. Foss., p. 50.) 
SrnENOPTEMS PUABELLIFOLIA, Ten. Woods. 
Sphcnoplcns (Aneimioides) Jlabdlifolia, Ten. Woods, Proc. Linn. Soo. N. S. Wales, 1883, viii., Pt. 1, p. 94. 
Sp. Ghnr. Frond delicate, small bipinnate, rachis terete, somewhat thick ; pinuiB 
oblong, cuneate, contracted at the base to a delicate petiole, lower edge entire, upper 
divided into linear cuneate lobes of varying width, the edges straight or rounded, some 
of the pinnsB much elongated, costa inconspicuous, veins tine, close, numerous, straight, 
radiating. {Ten. Woods.) 
Ohs. This species is said by its Author to possess a strong resemblance to 
Arcliceopteris. The type specimen reminds me of a small species of Dawson’s genus 
Aneimites. 
Loc. Burnett River, half way between Bundaberg and Five Coal Seams (Bev. 
J. E. T. Woods ) — Blue shale. 
Sphenopieeis plabellifolia, var. eeecta, Ten. Woods. 
Sphenopteris [Ancimioides) fiahdUfoUa, var. ereota, Ten. Woods, Proc. Linn. Soo. N. S. Wales, 1883, viii- 
Pt. 1, p. 94, t. 2, f. 2. 
Ohs. Of smaller size, and regularly pinnate, the pinnae lobed or segmented 
symmetrically at both sides. Although differing from the species proper, the venation 
* Since the above was written, a plant which I have satisfied myself is a true Glossopteris has been 
found by Mr. W. H. Rands, near Pentland, on the Northern Railway, in strata which my Colleague has 
ascertained to lie uneonformably on the “Rolling Downs Formation,” and which, therefore, he believes 
to be part of the Destrt Sandstone. See Chapters on the Desert Sandstone. (JJ. E. Junr.) 
