16 DESCRIPTIONS OF FOSSIL PLANTS. 



Beichemia multinervis A I. Br. 



Two specimens ; Museum Dumber, -438. 



Aralia! pungens ? Lx. 



One specimen ; Museum number, 2428. 



Alalia! whitneyi ? Lx. 



One specimen , Museum number, 2429. 



Andromeda? (Leucothce) crassa, n. Bp. 



Leaves thick, coriaceous, entire, narrowly oval, oblong or elliptical,, 

 obtuse, petioled. Secondaries camptodrome. This leaf resembles those 

 of some Quercus, e. //., I. chhrophylla Ung.; but the secondaries are not: 

 thin and indistinct, but comparatively thick, well marked, somewhat 

 distant, camptodrome, the holders of the leaf being reflexed and the 

 end of the secondaries not seen. Its greatest affinity is with the leafl 

 figured by linger (Sylloge, iii, p. 3G, PI. xn, fig. 11) as Andromeda tristis, 

 a variety, according to Scbimper, of A. protogaea, The leaf is 5 C "' long,. 

 22""" broad at the middle, with a petiole a little more than l cm long ; the 

 secondaries, pairs, diverge 40 to 50 degrees from the medial nerve. 



One specimen; Museum number, 2422. On same stone with num- 

 bers 2480 and 2G14. 



Cassia phaseolites ? Ung. 

 Two specimens; Museum number, 2455. 



Paliurus columbi Heer. 



One specimen ; Museum number, 2542. 



Myrica (Aralia) lessigii? Heer. 



Two specimens; Museum number, 2522. 



Porana Bendirei (Ward) Lx. Plate viu, fig. 4. M arsilia Bendirei Ward. Sketch of 

 Paleobotany. Fifth Ann. Kept. Director U. S. Geological Survey, 1S83-'84.I 

 p. 44f>. 



Calix large, quadrilobate, lobes broadly oval, obtuse ; the lateral 

 shorter, more enlarged, reniform, connate to above the middle, nerves 

 thin, diverging from a central small oval point. 



The calix is nearly 4"" wide in its length, 3 cm broad; the largest ol 

 the sepals being 2°'" long, H <m broad at the middle. The species is: 

 much like /'. ceningemis (as figured by Weber in Paleontog., vol. ii., PL 

 xxiv, tig. 2), a species which, according to Scbimper, is not the true P. 

 cetiingensis and which differs from the American species by having the- 

 sepals free to the base or to near the center, smaller and round. That 

 plant of Weber is apparently what is described as Hydrangea sagoriana 

 Ett. (Foss. PI. v. Sagor, part iii, p. 18, PI. xxxi, tig. 3). 



Two specimens ; Museum number, 2541. 



Carpites fragariaeformis, u. sp.T 



One specimen; Mnseiun number. 2442. 



