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Gaudini (Lesqx.), Planera dubia (Lesqx.), Oinnamomum 

 crassipes (Liesqx.), Persoonia oviformis (Lesqx.), Diospi/ros 

 tancifolia (Lesqx.), Acer trilobatum? (Al. Br,). 



By Mr. Lesquereux the plant-bearing strata of Belling- 

 ham Bay and Vancouver's Island were regarded as of the 

 same age ; and from the resemblance of the species which 

 they contain, to some of those found in the Miocene of 

 Europe, he pronounces them to be of that age. [op. cit. 

 Vol. XXVII. p. 362.) 



In a subsequent number of the " American Journal of 

 Science," (Vol. XXVIII. p. 85,) is published a letter from 

 Prof. Oswald Heer, the eminent Swiss fossil botanist, con- 

 taining remarks on these plants, of which drawings had 

 been sent him by Mr. Lesquereux. 



In these notes the extinct floras of Vancouver's Island 



