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Newberry's views, although many students will be disposed to 

 question this relationship. The exact locality from which they 

 were collected was not recorded, and no additional specimens 

 have been discovered in subsequent collections, so that our knowl- 

 edge of the species must remain incomplete, especially as the avail- 

 able material is imperfect. 



Occurrence. — Locality unknown. 



Collections. — N. Y. Botanical Garden. 



Order ROSALES. 



Family LEGUMINOS^. 



Genus LEGUMINOSITES Bowerbank. 

 (Foss. Fr. & Seeds London Clay, 1840, p. 124.) 



LEGUMINOSITES CORONILEOIDES Hecr. 



Lcgiiniinosifes coroniUoidcs Heer, Fl. Foss. Arct., vol. 3, ab. 



2:119, Pl- 34>f- 14, 1874- 

 Lesq., Fl. Dakota Group, 149, pi. zj, /. 10, 1892. 

 Newb., Fl. Amboy Clays, 97, pi. 42, f. 48, 1896. 

 Hollick, U. S. Geol. Surv. Mon. 50: 86, pi. 32, f. 16, 17, 

 1907. 

 Leguminosites frigidus Hollick, Trans. N. Y. Acad. Sci., vol. 



12 : 34, pi. 2, f. II, 1892. 

 Colutea coronilloides' Heer, Fl. Foss. Arct., vol. 6, ab. 2 : 100, 

 1882. 



Description. — ^"L. foliolis parvulis, ovalibus, breviter petiolatis, 

 nervis secundariis distantibus, curvatis, subtilissimus." Heer, 

 1874. 



Leaflets small, oval in outline, unsymmetrical, 1.5 cm. to 2.8 

 cm. in length by 8.5 mm. to 12 mm. in breadth, entire, short 

 petioled. Midrib stout. Secondaries thin, remote, 3 to 5 pairs, 

 alternate, camptodrome, often obsolete. 



Leguminous leaflets from a number of widely removed locali- 

 ties have been referred to this species, and while all of these are 

 very similar in general characters, their positive identity cannot 

 be affirmed with any great confidence. Described originally from 



