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Carpilcs coo-, iiloidcst, Hcer. 



Plate LX, rigs. :i2-:!5. 

 CarjjoUthts coccaloidca, llocr, Fl. Arct., ii, p. 4S4, pi. lii, fiK- 9.— Lesqx., Aiinu;il K.-poit, 1H71, p. 2'JO. 



Fruits small, one ceutiiuctor long, six inilliineters broad in \\w. enlarged 

 upper part, obovate, sessile, obliquely truncate at the point of attachment, 

 regularly more or less distinctly striate in the length. It represents evidently 

 a iiurd drupe, as the stone is excavated wherever this fruit has b(>eii ind)eddcd. 

 It turns on one side; to a point more distinctly than it is marked in Heer's 

 figures of this species {he. cit.), but tliis may be an appearance resulting 

 from its position in the stoue. Though abundant enough, especially at 

 Carbon, I have never seen it attached to a pedicel. 



Habitat. — Carbon, Wyoming (Dr. F. V. Hayden). 



Carpites c o c c u I oidcs!, Heer, var. niitjor. 



Plate LX, Figs. :!8, 3'J. 



Merely differs from the former by its size, being doubly laiger. It is 

 apparently referable to a different species of the same genus. Heer com- 

 pares these fruits to the seeds oi Menispermum or Cocculus, which they much 

 resemble, indeed. 



Habitat. — I found these specimens at Carbon, with a number of those 



of the former size. 



C ii r p ■ t c s 1 i g u e II s , Lesqx. 



Plato LX, Figs. 3G, 36 a. 



Small, narrowly oval fruits or drupes, seemingly joined at the base. 

 They are of a hard consistence, not flattened, and thinly striated in the 

 length. The only specimen seen represents four of these (lrupes(?) imbed- 

 ded at the base into the stone. 



Habitat. — Placiere Mountain, New Mexico {Dr. F. V. Haijden). 

 C a r p i t c s v a I v a t ii s, sp. nov. 

 Plate LX, Fig. 37. 



A mere fragment, representing apparently the outside part of a valvate 

 receptacle. It is a little more than one centimeter long, and as broad, enlarged 

 upward and fan-like from a broken base, divided outside into six oblanceo- 

 late, obtuse, convex ribs, with a smooth, rounded top above. Fragments of 

 this kind, but more obscure still, are found in the bottom clay of the Lignitic 

 coal, near Fort Steele, Wyoming {F. B. Meek), with AUetites dubius. They 

 resemble the capsules of Norde7ixklildia borenlis as figured by Heer (Spitz. 

 Fl., pi. vii, fig. 7). 



