103 HoLLiCK : Fossil Petal and Fruit from Kansas 



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. 



Fig. a. Magnolia palaeopetala Hollick. 



