SELLARDS.] Fossil Plants, Upper Paleozoic, Kansas. 445 
has evicently the natural shape of the frond, except that the 
apices of the pinnules are broken and somewhat displaced. The 
frond is rigid, strongly curved at the base, and again less 
strongly curved in the opposite direction at the apex. The ex- 
treme apex is not preserved. 
The first specimen of this species was collected by Mr. C. 
Sterling, for whom the species is named. 
Formation and locality: Wellington shales, Banner City, 
Dickinson county. 
Glenopteris lobata Sellards.™ 
Fronds large, pinnate, petiolate, coriaceous. Rachis strong, 
flat, striate, 114 cm. wide, broken off short at the base. Pinne 
close, alternate or subopposite, linear, sessile, and overlapping 
at the base, 114 cm. apart, longest 6 cm., divided into numerous 
small, ovate, shallow, but distinct lobes. Basal pinnee reduced, 
scarcely or not at all lobed, lowest pair much reduced, 114 cm. 
long, reflexed. Lobes more distinct on the lower side of the 
pinna than on the upper, true at least of those pinnze approach- 
ing the base of the frond. First lobe on the lower side of each 
pinna attached to the main rachis. Midvein of the pinna broad, 
but shallow, marked on the upper side of the frond by a shal- 
low furrow continuing to near the apex, curved down at its 
union with the rachis. Lateral veins entirely obscured by the 
coriaceous frond. 
This species, as noted in the discussion of the genus, ap- 
proaches very close to Lomatopteris Schimper. As in that 
genus, the veins are obscured, frond thick petiolate, rachis . 
strong and striate, pinnze lobed. The absence of a thickened 
border of the pinnules is one of the important characters sep- 
arating this species from Schimper’s genus. Lomatopteris 
burgondiaca may be compared as a species closely related in 
the form of its fronds. 
Formation and locality: Wellington shales, Banner City, 
Dickinson county. 
Teniopteris BRONGNIART. 
Prodrome, p. 61, 1828. 
The genus Teniopteris is well represented in number of 
‘specimens in the Kansas Permian flora. Two species and one 
variety have been recognized. The genus as developed in the 
Kansas Permian has been described by me in an earlier paper 
299. Kan. Univ. Quarterly, vol. 9, pp. 187-189, pl. 37, fig. 4; pl. 42, fig. 2, 1900. 
