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Car piles cocciiloidcsl, Heer. 



■ Plate LX, Figs. 32-35. 

 Carpolithes cocculoides, Heer, Fl. Arct., ii, p. 4b4, pi. lii, fig. 9.— Lesqx., Annual Report, 1871, p. 290. 



Fruits small, one centimeter long, six millimeters broad in the enlarged 

 upper part, obovate, sessile, obliquely truncate at the point of attachment, 

 regularly more or less distinctly striate in the length. It represents evidently 

 a hard drupe, as the stone is excavated vi'herever this fruit has been imbedded. 

 It turns on one side to a point more distinctly than it is marked in Heer's 

 figures of this species {he. clL), but this may be an appearance resulting 

 from its position in the stone. Though abundant enough, especially at 

 Carbon, I have never seen it attached to a pedicel. 



Habitat. — Carbon, Wyoming (Dr. F. V. Hayden). 



Cai'pites cocculoides!, Heer, var. major. 



s, Plate LX, Figs. 38, 39. 



Merely differs from the former by its size, being doubly larger. It is 

 apparently referable to a different species of the same genus. Heer com- 

 pares these fruits to the seeds of Menisjjermum or Cocculus, which they much 

 resemble, indeed. 



Habitat. — I found these specimens at Carbon, with a number of those 



of the former size. 



Car pates lig'atiis, Lesqz. 



Plato LX, Figs. 30, 36 a. 



Small, narrowly oval fruits or drupes, seemingly joined at the base. 

 They are of a hard consistence, not flattened, and thinly striated in the 

 length. The only specimen seen represents four of these drupes(?) imbed- 

 ded at the base into the stone. 



Habitat. — Placiere Mountain, New Mexico {Dr. F. V. Haijden). 



C a r p i t e s v a I v a t ii s, sp. nov. 

 Plate LX, Fig. 37. 



A mere fragment, representing apparently the outside part of a valvate 

 receptacle. It is a little more than one centimeter long, and as broad, enlarged 

 upward and fan-like from a broken base, divided outside into six oblanceo- 

 late, obtuse, convex ribs, with a smooth, rounded top above. Fragments of 

 this kind, but more obscure still, are found in the bottom clay of the Lignitic 

 coal, near Fort Steele, Wyoming {F. B. Metk), with Abietites dubius. They 

 resemble the capsules of NordemkiCldia borenlis as figured by Heer (Spitz. 

 FL, pi. vii, fig. 7). 



