105 HoLLicK : Fossil Petal and Fruit from Kansas 



These five specimens are the only ones which I have found 

 recorded as occurring in the same geological horizon as that to 

 which our specimen belongs, or in any strata which may be re- 

 garded as its equivalent, and none of them is equal to ours as a 

 specimen, so far as may be judged from the figures. 



Ficus neurocarpa sp. nov. 



Fruit broadly obovate-spatulate in outline, 2.8 cm. long by 

 2.4 cm. maximum width, thick and wrinkled towards the middle, 

 flattened more or less at or near the margin, minutely punctate and 

 delicately nerved ; primary nerves convergent but distinct and sepa- 

 rated from each other at the base, divergent and becoming thinner 

 and indistinct above, where they anastomose ; secondary nerves 

 very fine and apparently irregularly disposed. {Fig. B, /.) 



Locality : Ellsworth Co., Kans. 



This fossil has very much the appearance of many dried her- 

 barium specimens and it is evident that it must have possessed 

 considerable consistency in order to retain its original shape, as it 

 has done to a certain extent, under the pressure to which it must 

 have been subjected. 



