_Wardia fertilis_ (White). Another example of a fern-like frond bearing seeds is afforded by specimens from the Lower Pottsville series of Virginia (correlated with the Millstone grit of British geologists) described by Mr David White[456] as _Aneimites_ (_Wardia_) _fertilis_. The compound fronds usually referred to the genus _Adiantides_ or _Adiantites_[457] are characterised by cuneate pinnules with a thin lamina and forked, slightly divergent veins (fig. 445, A, D). White discards the name _Adiantides_ in favour of Dawson’s genus _Aneimites_ on the ground that Goeppert[458], who instituted the former term, applied it in the first instance to leaves of _Ginkgo_ which he identified as simple Fern fronds. In spite of this misapplication of the name it has been constantly used and is well established. The discovery of seeds is, however, a reason for the adoption of a new generic name, and as White proposed _Wardia_ for the seeds it may appropriately be extended to the fronds in place of the provisional term _Aneimites_. The seeds which occur at the apices of slender pedicels on pinnae bearing relatively small pinnules with a reduced lamina (fig. 445, B, C) are rhomboidal in shape, 4·5 mm. long and 2·5 mm. broad. The bilaterally symmetrical seeds were probably enclosed, as White suggests, in a fleshy integument which on pressure became laterally extended as a wing-like border. In some of the seeds there is an indication of a ‘slight collapse within the apex of the nutlet,’ which may mean the presence of a pollen-chamber; but while the preservation is too imperfect to afford any decisive evidence as to anatomical features, there is no reason to doubt the conclusion as to the seed-nature of the organs described by White. Nothing is known of the stem, though the opinion may be hazarded that _Wardia_ is a member of the Medulloseae. _Adiantites bellidulus_ Heer and _Lagenospermum Arberi_ Nathorst.