577 
von Mueller in the Transactions of x 
the Victoria Institute, 1: 24,1854, iy 
and figured in his Eucalyptographia, 
Decade V, 1880. 
In the accompanying cut, Fig. 1 
represents the fossil leaf and Fig. 2 
is a copy of one of the leaves of 
approximately the same size of £, 
largiflorens Muell., from the plate 
accompanying the description given 
in the work already referred to. 
The substantial identity of the ner- 
vation is apparent ata glance. In 
describing that species in the same 
work, Baron von Mueller devoted 
only. two lines to the nervation as 7 
follows: “Lateral veins extremely Ve 
fine, diverging at a very acute angle / I 
2 
i 
H 
a 
W 
4 
Ui 
uN / 
or not very spreading nor quite 
close, the circumferential vein some- 
what removed from the edge.” This description is, of course, 
very inadequate, but it is well known that botanists pay scarcely 
any attention to nervation and do not take the trouble to acquaint 
themselves with the proper terminology of the subject.* 
We thus have another link in an already long chain of evidence 
which goes to prove that the Australian Fever Tree has had a long 
history, and was widely distributed over the globe in Cretaceous 
and Tertiary time, millions of years before man made his appear- 
ance. 
Two new Species of Sanicula from the Southern States. — 
. By EuGeEnE P. BIcKNELL. 
_ Ina paper published in 1895,* describing two new species of 
_ Sanicula from the Eastern States, I hinted my belief in the exis- 
tence of still a third unrecognized species. The single plantwhich =~ 
'* This may be found summed up, with illustrations, in the Century Dictionary, arti; 
_ * Bull. Torr. Club, 22: 351-361. 
