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is, howovor, mon> c'.oTigaliMl atid more distinctly 

 triv(-iii(>(l. Among foroigii species it is closely 

 conip!U-;il)l(> Avith Ficus tnichiloti, which is 

 described l)y W.-Uelet ■ from the ThiineticUi of 

 the Paris basin. 



The AVilcox mnt(>rial from Ilatchie River 

 near Shandy is |)rcserved in day ironstone and 

 is very fragment a i-y ; the comiilete leaf fignriMl 

 is a composite of (h'awings of sex'cral incom]ilet(> 

 specimens. It is also found in a fragmentaiy 

 condition in tlu> clays at I'ui-year. 



Occurrence. — Wilcox group, 1^ miles north- 

 cast of Mansfield, sec. I'S, T. i:] N., R. 12 W. 

 (collected l)y L. ('. Cliajiman), and 1^ miles 

 west, 1'? miles southeast, 5 miles southeast, and 

 2 miles south of Xahorton, l)e Soto Parish, La. 

 (collected by G. C. Matson and (). B. Hopkins). 

 Lagrange formation (in beds of Wilcox age), 

 Puryear, Henry County (collected by E. W. 

 Berry), and Hatchie River near Shandy, PLirde- 

 man County, Tenn. (collected by L. C. John- 

 son). 



Collections. — U. S. National Museum. 



Ficus harrisiana Hollick. 



Plate XXXIV, figure 1. 



Finis goldiana Lesquereux. Lescjuereux, U. S. Nat. Mu8. 

 Proc, vol. 11, p. 25, 1888. 



FitMS Harrisiana. Ilollick, in Harris, G. D., and Veatch, 

 A. C, A preliininaPi- report on the geologj' of Louisi- 

 ana, p. 281, pi. 4(i, "fig. 2, 1899. 



Description. — Hollick in 1899 gave the fol- 

 lowing description: 



Leaf al)OUt 3^ inches long hy .SJ inches liroad across the 

 middle; constricted to a blunt (?) apex and wedge-shaped 

 at the base; margin entire and wa\-y: three-nerved from 

 the base and with two pairs of prominent Hubopposite sec- 

 ondaries above; miilriT) strongest, basal nerves Iminched 

 from the lower side; all nervation finally tliinning out and 

 inosculating near the margin, tertiary nervation mainly at 

 right angles to the primaries, secondaries, and subseconda- 

 ries, but broken in places by finer cross reticulations. 



I fully share Hollick' s doubts regarding the 

 reference of this leaf to Ficus, altitougli it is 

 not unlike Ficus occidentalis Lesquereux - and 

 Ficus planicostatfi cUntnni (Lesquereu.x) Knowl- 

 ton ^ from the Denver fonnation at Golden, 

 Colo. P\cus planicostata cUntoni is a slightly 

 more elongate and c.(»arser leaf. Hollick com- 

 pares the material from Louisiana with Aralia 



' Watelet, A., Descriptions de^ piantes fossiles du bassin <lo I*aris. p. 

 l.iT, pi. 44,rigs. 4, .5, 1SG6. 

 ! Lesquereux, Leo, The Tertiary flora, p. 200, pi. 32, flg. 4, 1878. 

 » Idem, p. 202. 



and lledcta, and 1 woidd stiggest the possibility 

 that it represents a form of the familj' Legu- 

 mhiosa\ so strikingly rc|)resented in the Wilcox 

 flora. It may also be ('ompared with cei'tain 

 spcH'ies of the genus Buttiicria Liime of tlic 

 Sterculiaceie. 



Two sj)ecimens (U. S. Nat ional Museum Nos. 

 2471, 2472) collected by L. C. Johnson on Cross 

 Bayou were ref(>iTC(l by Lesquereux to Ficus 

 ffdjdidna:' Neither specimcMi belongs to that 

 sjH'cies, which is now known as Ficus spectabilis 

 clintoni.^ No. 2471 is nothing like Ficus gol- 

 diana and is refe)•.^ble to Ficus spectabilis Les- 

 quereux. No. 2472, though much like th(^ Den- 

 ver species with wjiich it was confused, is refer- 

 able to Ficus harrisiana species. It is of inter- 

 est to note that Lcsquereu.x's label reads ' ' Ficus 

 goUliana, var." 



Occurrence. — Wilcox group, Vuie3'ard Bluff, 

 Cro.ss Bayou (coll<'<ited by O. B. Hopkins and 

 A. C. Veatch) ; CampbeU's quarry, Cross Bayou, 

 Caddo Parish, La. (collectetl by L. C. Jolnison) ; 

 1 mile northeast of Rockdale Church; and sec. 

 28, T. 13 N., R. 12 W., De Soto Parish, La. 

 (collected by G. C. Matson and O. B. Hopkins). 



Collections. — U. S. National Musemn; New 

 York Botanical Garden. 



Ficus monodon (Lesquereux). 



Plates XXXII, figure 2, and XXXIII, figure 2. 



Populus monodon. Lesquereux (not Lesquereux, 1878), 

 Am. Philos. Soc. Trans., vol. 13, p. 413, pi. 15, fgs. 

 1, 2, 18G9. 



Description. — Lesquereux m 1S69 published 

 the following description: 



P. foliis longis, latisquo, lamina sexpolicari et ultra, 

 deltoideo acuminatis, margine undulatis, vel parce irregu- 

 lariter obtuse lobatis, nervo medio crasso, nervis lateralibue 

 apertis, arcuatis. 



This species was described from the two 

 specimens figiu'ed by Lesquereux in 1869, the 

 larger of which (showni in Lesquereux's fig. 1 ) 

 has been available for study by the present 

 writer. Subsequently Lesquereux " referred 

 specimens from the Raton Mountains, N. Mex., 

 to this same species. These specimens were not 

 identical with the type material, as Knowlton 

 has pointed out,' and he divides the material 

 from New Mexico which Lesquereux identified 



< Idem, pL 33, figs. 1-3. 



5 Knowlton, F. H., TI. S. Geol. .Snrvey Hull. 1.52, p. 103, 1898. 



6 Lesquereux, Leo, op. cit., p. 180, pi. 24, figs. 1, 2, 1878. 

 ^ Knowlton, F. II., op. cit., ]i. 17S. 



