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Feistmantel: Notes on Fossil Floras in Lidia. 
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and Massalongo have described, amongst the ferns, a Glossopteris, as Glossopt. apocyno- 
phyllum, on p. 206 ; and there is a figure of it on pi. I, fig. 1. There is, supposing 
the figure be correct, hardly any doubt that this form belongs to those ferns with a 
distinct midrib and areolated venation, which in India and Australia are called Glossop- 
ieris. It is a strange coincidence that with this Glossopteris of hi ovale broad-leaved 
species of Tceniopteris were found, with pretty distant dichotomous veins, which are as 
distant as in our MiucrofanioplerU danceoides, Royle: they were described as Tceniopt. affinis 
Mass, et Vis., and T&niopt. crassieosta , Mass, et Vis.; they, however, seem to belong to one 
species, which must be classed with Macrotceniopteris. 
I shall now mate some remarks on the affinities of Glossopteris with living forms, based 
mostly on the mode of fructification. In some of the Australian specimens Mr. Carrnthers 
thinks he has observed a fructification along the secondary veins, which reminds strongly 
of Anthrophyum, with which also the areolation agrees ; and already Prof. Ettingshausen* 
compared Glossopteris Brownianct with Anthrophyum Cayenense, Spr., which is a form 
of that genus with distinct midrib. 
Anthrophyum exhibits, however, with similar shape of the leaves, also forms with 
radiary net-venation, without midrib ; and I have already pointed to this case, to show that, 
perhaps, at least certain forms of Glossopteris could be to Gangamopteris in the same 
relation as are the forms of Anthrophyum with midribs to those without midrib. 
Amongst our Indian forms of Glossopteris, I think we have two states of fructifica¬ 
tion. One is that known in the specimens of Nagpur, which are the typical forms of Glossopt. 
indica, Schimp.; they show a fructification like that in the living genus Polypodium. Another 
form from the Raniganj coal-field I think shows some traces of a marginal fructification, and 
would recall the fructification of the genus Pteris; it is the Glossopteris angustifolia, Bgt. 
The fourth form is the tertiary Glossopteris apocynoplyllum, of which no fructification is 
known; but Ettingshausen suggests that it belongs to Chrysodium. 
Our knowledge of the living affinities of Glossopteris stands therefore as follows :— 
Living. 
Fossil. 
Order. 
Genus or species. 
Observed, 
Glossopteris Browniana , Bgt. 
Polypodiets 
Anthrophyum Cayenense, 
Spr. 
In Australia (Carruthers). 
Glossopteris indica, Schimp. 
Polypodiece 
Polypodium, 
In India (Ohs. Brongniart, Bun- 
bury, &c.). 
Glossopteris angustifolia, Bgt. 
Pteridece 
Pteris. ... 
In India (the author). 
Glossopteris apocynophyllum , Mass.... 
A crostichacece ... 
Chrysodium. 
Tertiary, Novale (aut. Ettings¬ 
hausen). 
There are, of course, man}' other specimens and forms in which no fructification or any 
other character to compare them with living forms has been observed. They can no doubt 
partly he referred to the above-mentioned forms ; but there may still be different types. 
* Farren der Jetztwelt, p. 25,186?. 
