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Hottiick: Fosstr PETAL AND Fruit FROM Kansas’ 108 
Locality : Ellsworth Co., Kans. 
It is apparent that this petal must have possessed a texture 
more or less coriaceous, as otherwise its preservation in such a 
relatively coarse medium as the Dakota sandstone would have 
been impossible, and this supposition is supported by the fact that 
the convexity of the surface, the incurving of the base and margin 
and the constriction of the former, all appear to have been char- 
acters of the living flower and not to be due to subsequent distor- 
tion by fossilization. 
Fic. A. Magnolia palaeopetala Hollick. 
