(73) 



also suggests that it might be a fragment of Ilex Masoni 

 Lesq. There are several similar fragments in my collection. 



MORACEAE. 

 Ficus Linn. Sp. PL 1059. 1753. 



The existing species number some six hundred shrubs and 

 trees of the warmer parts of the globe everywhere, chiefly in 

 Asia, Africa and the East Indian Islands. Two species 

 enter the limits of the United States, occurring in Florida 

 and the West Indies. About one hundred species of Ficics 

 occur in America in the following formations : Potomac 2, 

 Raritan 3, Island Raritan 5, Dakota 23, Woodbine i, Mon- 

 tana 16, Vancouver 6, Laramie 21, Livingston i, Denver 9, 

 Ft. Union 5, Green River 5, Tertiary of Yellowstone Park 

 4, Eocene 6, Eolignitic 6, Miocene 7, Atane 3, Patoot 2, 

 Greenland Tertiary i. 



Recorded by Ettingshausen from Tertiary of New Zealand 

 (Trans. N. Z. Inst. v. 23) ; now extinct there, though living 

 in Australia. 



Ficus reticulata (Lesq.) Knowlton. PL 52. f. y, pL jj. 

 /. /, 4.. 



Laurophylhmi reticulatum Lesq. Ann. Rep. U. S. Geol. 

 & Geog. Surv. Terr. 1872: 425. 1873; Cret. Flora, 



^e.fl. is.f. 4^5' 1874. 

 Ficus laurophylla Lesq. Ann. Rep. U. S. Geol. i& Geog. 

 Surv. Terr. 1874: 342. fl. 5./. 7. 1876. Cret. & 

 Tert. Fl. 49.//. /./. 12, 13. 1878; Fl. Dak. Group, 

 85. 1892. 

 Ficus reticulata Knowlton, Bull. U. S. Geol. Surv. 152 : 



104. 1898. 

 Heretofore known from the Dakota Group of Kansas. 

 The Cliffwood remains consist of the impressions of the 

 under surface of leaves rather fragmentary, and indicate an 

 oblong-lanceolate leaf 2-3.5 ^m. in width, with an entire 

 margin and rather stout midrib ; secondaries branch at an 

 obtuse angle, unequal, becoming marginal ; venation some- 



