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LOWEK EOCEXE FLORAS OF SOUTHEASTERN XOKTH AMERICA. 



ill juy judgment several species nro referable to 

 the Caniiace» and not to the Musacca, as, for 

 example, Musa hiliiiica Ettingshansen, Musa 

 specioDa Saporta, and some at least of the forms 

 referred to JfunophijUuiu complicatum Lesque- 

 reux. Another form which probably represents 

 a species of Canna is Convallaria latlfolia de- 

 scrilied by Liidwig ' from the Aquitanian of 

 Miinzeiiberg, Hesse. Tuzson - has also recently 

 described a comparable form from the upper 

 Oligocene of the Zsil Valley in Transylvania as 

 Scluifarzikia oUgocxnica gen. et sp. nov. 



Occurrence. — Holly Springs sand, Oxford, La- 

 fayette County, Miss., and Grenada formation, 

 Grenada, Grenada County, Miss, (collected by 

 E. W. Berry). Wilcox group, Old Port Caddo 

 Landing, Little Cj'press Bayou, Harrison 

 County, Tex. (collected by T. W. Vaughan). 



Collection. — U. S. National Museum. 



MONOCOTYLEDON.aE INCERTiE SEDIS 



Phtllites wilcoxensis Berry, n. sp. 



Plate CXII, %ure 12. 



Description. — Leaves of relatively large size, 

 broatUy lanceolate in general outline, apex 

 bluntly pointed and base narrowly cuneate, ex- 

 tended, sheathing. Length about 20 to 25 

 centimeters. Maximun^ width, in the mid- 

 dle part of . the leaf, about 4 to 5 centi- 

 meters. Margins entire. Texture thin, some- 

 what flabellate. Midrib stout, broad, and flat. 

 Secondaries thin, diverging from the midrib at 

 acute angles and pursuing a flexuously curved 

 course toward the margins, with which they 

 eventually become subparaUel until they are 

 lost in the tertiary areolation (dictyodrome). 

 Tertiaries irregularly flabellate, forming later- 

 ally elongated, narrow, acutely pointed meshes. 



This species is unfortunately based on but 

 two specimens which hardly admit of adequate 

 characterization or identification. It is obvi- 

 ously a netted-veined monocotyledon, and 

 among the netted-veined families it is probably 

 referable to the Aracea;. 



Occurrence. — Grenada formation, Grenada, 

 Grenada County, Miss, (collected by E. N. 

 Lowe and E. W. Beny). 



Collection. — U. S. National Museum. 



1 Ludwig, U., PalaeonlOKraphica, vol. 8, p. 87, pi. 19, fig. 0, 1859. 

 =Tuzson,J., K. ungarischen geol. Anstalt, Mitt. Jahrb., Bd. 21, Ucft S, 

 p.251,pl. 19, flg. 1,1914. 



Subclass DICOTYLEDON^;. 



Superorder CHORIPETALiE. 



Order JUGL AND ALES. 



Family JUGLANDACE.a;. 



Gcnu.s JUGLANS Linne. 



(?) JUGLANS SAFFORDIANA LcsqUCreUX. 



Juglans • Saffordiana. Lesquereux, Am. Philos. Soc. 

 Trans., vol. 13, p. 421, pi. 20, fig. 7, 18G9. 



Description. — The description given by Los- 

 quereiLX in 1869 is as follows: 



J. foliis ovate lanceolatis, acutis, basi intequaliter 

 cordatis, remote obtuse serratis, iien-is secundariis angulo 

 suberecto ejjredientibus, arcuatk. 



This species was founded on a single speci- 

 men, figured by Lesquereux, wliich has subse- 

 quently disajipeared. Lesquereux is positive 

 that the base was cordate, but it aj^pears to 

 me to represent, as fai as one may judge fiom 

 the figure, a sjiccimen of some species of 

 DryophyQum liroken symmotriciilly across 

 near the middle. There is no plausible reason 

 for regarding it as re])rt!st«iting a Juglans, but. 

 as I have been unable to correlate it with an_y 

 other form in tiie vast amount of Wilcox mate- 

 rials that have passed. thrt)ugh my hands, I 

 have left it as alwjve, since it is scarcely worth 

 while to endeavor to discover the botanii: 

 affuiity of such poor mattnial. 



Occurrence. — Lagrange formation (in beds of 

 Wilcox age). La Grange, Fayette County, Tenn. 

 (collected by J. M. Safford). 



Collection. — Typo lost. 



Juglans schimperi Lesquereux. 

 Plates XVIII, figures 3-5, and XIX, figure 4. 



Juglans Schimperi. Lesquereux, U. S. Geol. and Geog. 

 Survey Terr. Ann. Rept. 1871, Suppl., p. 8, 1872; 

 The Tertiary flora, p. 287, pi. 56, figs. 5-10, 1878. 

 Hollick, in Harris, G. D., and Vcatch, A. C, A pre- 

 liminary report on the geology of Louisiana, p. 280, 

 pi. 32, fig. 5; pi. 33, figs. 1, 2; pi. 35, fig. 3, 1899. 



Juglans rugosa. Lesquereux (not Lesquereux, 1878), 

 U. S. Nat. Mus. Proc., vol. 11, p. 13, 1888. 



Description. — Leaves ovate-lanceolate and 

 somewhat inequilateral in outline. Apex grad- 

 ually acuminaU'. Base broadly cmioate or 

 rounded, inequilateral. Size vai'iable; length 

 ranges from 10 to LS centimeters; maximum 

 widtli, in middle or lower half of tlie h^af, from 

 2 to 4.8 centimeters. Margins entire, slightly 



