86 DESCRIPTION OF SPECIES. 



JUGLANDE^E. 



JUGLANS, Linn. 



Jug-laiis? Debeyana, Heer. 



" U. S. Geol. Rep.," vi, p. 110, pi. xxiii, figs. 1-5. 



Populus Debeyana, Heer, "Phyll. Cret. du Neb.." p. 14, pi. i, fig. 1; Newby., "Notes on Ext. PI.," p. 17; 

 "Ilhi3tr.,"pl. iv, fig. 3. 



ANACARDIAGE^. 



Pliyllites rkoifolius, Lesqx. 



"U. S. Geol. Rep.," vi, p. Ill, pi. xxii, figs. 5, 6. 



POMACES. 



PYRUS, Lindl. 

 Pyrns? cretacea, Newby. 



"Notes on Ext. PI.," p. 12; "Illustr.,* pi. ii, fig. 7. 



Leaves petioled, small, roundish, oval or elliptical, often slightly einargiuate, 

 entire or finely serrate; medial nerve strong below, rapidly diminishing toward the 

 summit ; lateral nerves four or five pairs, with intermediate smaller ones, diverging from 

 the midrib at unequal angles, curved toward the summit, where they anastomose in a 

 series of arches parallel with the margins; tertiary nerves forming a net- work of which 

 the areoles are somewhat elongated. ( Ny.) 



This leaf seems to be a small, lateral leaflet of Juglans? iJebeyana. 



Hab. — Smoky Hills, Kansas. Dr. Hoyden. 



AMYGDALEJ. 



PRUNUS, Tourn. 

 Prunus cretacea, Lesqx. 

 "U. S. Geol. Rep.," vi, p. Ill, pi. xxiii, figs. 8, 9. 



LEGUMINOSJS. 



LEGUMINOSITES, Auct. 



Lt e s n m i n o s i t e s c ul t r if o r mi s , sp. nov. 



Plate X, Fig. 4. 



Fruit (legume) stipitate, rounded to the point of support, enlarged above it and 

 gradually tapering up to an obtuse point; stipe enlarged at base. 



The legume is 7 i centimeters long without its stipe (a little more than 



2 centimeters), 13 millimeters broad above the base, the widest part, and 



gradually narrowed, by the inclination of one of its sides only, to a blunt 



