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Vacation Collecting. WW. Whitman Bailey (Bot. Gaz. xviii. 395). 
Notes on plants found at Little Compton, R. I. Senebiera 
Coronopus is reported as occurring in great abundance. 
Winchellia—The Genus. N. H. Winchell (Am. Geol. xii.. 209— 
213, Pl. VIII., IX.). 
This article is based upon a specimen representing .a new Cre- 
taceous genus, from the Yellowstone River, of which the descrip- 
tion with accompanying figures was prepared by Leo Lesquereux, 
_who proposed to name it after the author. During the delay and 
uncertainity, incident to publication by the United States Geolog- 
ical Survey, Rev. Mr. Hertzer chose the same name, for a new 
genus of Carboniferous trees, in honor of Alexander Winchell. 
The same name was also about to be applied by another paleon- 
tologist to a new genus of mollusks. 
The details of whatever friendly controversy ensued are not 
given, but eventually the name was cancelled for the molluscan | 
genus and the name Winchellina was adopted for the Carboni- 
ferous tree, thus leaving the way clear for the publication of Les- 
quereux’s original name. The species is described and figured 
therefor as Winchellia triphylla. \ts affinities are with the Ber- 
beridacez, and in order to emphasize this there is given a figure 
of a leaf of Achlys triphylla, D. C., for purposes of comparison. 
But the matter of greatest interest connected with it is that we 
have in this new fossil, the leaf of a plant which belongs to an 
order now recognized in the fossil form for the first time in 
America. Further than this, a comparison of the pods of Jeffer- 
sonia diphylla, with certain fossil fruits from the tertiary lignites 
of Brandon, Vt. (originally described as Carpolites Brandonianus, 
Lesq.), show that these are evidently closely allied to each other, 
if not actually belonging to the same genus. 
In order that the comparisons may be readily appreciated, the 
illustrations include in addition to the leaves of Winchellia triphylla 
and Achlys triphylla the fruit Carpolithes Brandonianus, and a pod 
of Jeffersonia diphylla. A. H. 
