58 FOSSIL FLORA OF THE JOHN DAY BASIN, OREGON. [bum,. iOJ. 



Localltij. — Masciill l)eds, Viiii IIoj'ii's ranch, about 12 uiilcs west of 

 Mount Vernon, Orouon. Collected b}^ Kev. Thomas Condon. The 

 t3'pc and only specimen is the property of Columbia University, New 

 York, and is under th(^ care of th(^ New York Botanical (nirden. 



Family MAGNOLIACPLE. 



Magnolia i>a\ceolata Lesq. 



Magnoi.ia lanceolata Lesq., Proc. IT. S. Nat. Mas., YoL XI, ]>. 20, LSSS. 



Locality. — Cherr}^ Creek, Crook County, Oregon. Collected by 

 Maj. Charles E. Bendire (U. S. Nat. Mus./No. 2.515). 



MA(iNOLIA CULVERI KnowltOll. 



Magnolia Culveri Knowlton, Mon. U. S. Geol. Snrv. Vol. XXXTT, Pt. II, p. 720, 



PL XCII, fig. 5, 1899. 

 Populus mtmodon Lesq., Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Vol. XI, p. 21, 1888. 



This material is not A^ery well preserved, l)ut it agrees absolutely 

 with this species and is so referred. 



Locality. — Cherry Creek, Crook County, Oregon. Collected by 

 Maj. Charles E. Bendire (U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 2540) and by Knowl- 

 ton and Merriam in 1901 (U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 9058). 



Magnolia Inglefieldi Heer. 



Magnolia Inglefieldi Heer, Fl. Foss. Arc, Vol. I, p. 120, PL III, fig. oc; PL XVI, 

 figs. 5, 6, 8b; PL XVIII, figs, 1-3, 1868; Lesquereux, Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., 

 Vol. XI, p. 13, 1888. 



This is certainly different from the last and may w^ell be Heer's spe- 

 cies. It is not contained in recent collections. 



Locality. — Van Horn's ranch, about 12 miles west of Mount Ver- 

 non, Grant County, Oregon. Collected by Maj. Charles E. Bendire 

 (U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 2513). 



Family LAURACEJ^]. 



Laukus okegoniana n. sp. 



PL IX, figs. 2, .3. 



Lauruti n. sp., Knowlton in Merriam, Univ. CaL, Bull. Dept. GeoL, Vol. II, No. 9, 

 p. 309, 1901. 



Leaves coriaceous in texture, narrowly lanceolate in shaj)e, nar- 

 rowed from apparently above the middle to a long narrowly wedge- 

 shaped base (upper portion not preserved, but apparently long and 

 narrowly acuminate); midrib thick below, becoming very slender in 

 the upper portion; secondaries about 6 pairs, thin, alternate, arising 

 at an ac ute angle, passing high u]) near the margin, where tiiey join, 



