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better able to speak of them as they deserve, but I have already 
put your patience to a test, and-must now leave the subject with 
the feeling, which I know is shared by some of you, that “the half 
has not been told.” 
Some further Notes upon Serenopsis Kempii. 
By ARTHUR HOLLICK. 
(PLATE CLXVL) 
In a previous paper* I described and figured a supposed new 
fossil palm, from the Cretaceous formation at Glen Cove, Long 
Island, under the name Serenopsis Kempii. Since that paper was 
published, another specimen, in a better state of preservation, has 
been found, from an examination of which some additional facts 
of interest have been obtained. 
The two specimens are alike, except that in the one now under 
consideration there are thin rays or filaments irregularly inter- 
spersed between and apparently proceeding from the lower parts 
of many of the main rays. These are either absent in the original 
specimens, or else so poorly preserved as to be invisible. They 
appear to be portions of the main rays which have become sepaf- 
ated or split off. It may also be noted that in places there appeat 
to be indications of reticulation between the rays, as if they might 
have been connected by a membrane. If so it must have been 
exceedingly thin, and a careful examination of the specimens does 
does not warrant us in assuming it. I am inclined to think that 
the filamentous rays and apparent reticulations are merely pOft- 
tions of the main rays which have been partly torn off, leaving — 
fragmentary connections. This appearance is strikingly like that 
which many palm leaves assume upon approaching maturity. 
Prof. Lester F. Ward, of the United States Geological Survey, 
from whom I requested an opinion concerning the probable affin- 
ities of the plant, does not think it a palm, but suggests that it is 
more likely to be allied to the organisms which have been called 
*« A ne Fossil Palm from the Cretaceous Formation at Glen Cove, Long Island” 
(Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, xx. 168, 169, Pl. CXLIX. } : : 
