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3. CARPOLITHES HORRIDUS, 8. N. (Figs. 3, 3a, 3b.) 
Fruit globose, 3 centimetres in diameter. Surface polished and shining, with dense 
thin coaly outer coat, marked with crowded pores or dots, from which are given off in a 
radiating manner numerous flat linear processes 4 to 5 centimetres in length,and 3 millimetres 
wide, and minutely dentate at their edges. I can only conjecture that this remarkable object 
is a compound fruit perhaps of some cycadaceous plant, covered with bracts or rudimentary 
leaves. Figures 3a and 3b show the processes and pores magnified. 
Fig. 3bis represents a pinnularia-like plant found in the same bed with the last species ; 
but whether connected with it in any way does not appear. 
Collected by Dr. Selwyn, Forks of the Pine R. 
4. GLYPTOSTROBUS GRACILLIMUS, Lesquereux, Cret. Flora, p. 52, Pt. I. 
The matrix holding this species is coarse, so that the details are not very clear ; but the 
study of a number of specimens leaves no doubt that they are identical with the species 
above named from Nebraska. Though placed by Lesquereux in Glyptostrobus, he remarks on 
its resemblance to Frenelia, and more especially to Frenelites Reichii, of Ettinghausen, from 
the Cretaceous of Neiderschaena. 
Collected by Dr. Selwyn at Forks of Pine R. 
5. SEQUOIA REICHENBACHII, Heer. 
This species is represented by afew branchlets from the Peace River ; but further south 
it is found in great abundance in the roof of a coal worked on Belly River. In ironstone 
concretions in neighboring beds, branchlets of the same species occur, along with fossil wood 
of the type of that of Sequoia gigantea, but with more slender fibres and shorter medullary 
rays, and not improbably belonging to the present species. Along with it are shells of 
Tnoceramus. 
Collected by Dr. Selwyn and Dr. G. M. Dawson. 
6. TORREIA DICKSONIOIDES SN. N. (Fig. 4.) 
A few leafy branches, seen in the Peace River collections, which are near to T. Dicksonii 
as described by Heer from Greenland specimens; but the leaves are more decurrent on the 
stem, and more obtuse. They are also very thick, and transversely wrinkled. 
Collected at Pine R., by Dr. G. M. Dawson. 
7. Ficus Maxima, 8. N. (Fig. 5.) 
Fragments of a large leaf, 8 centimetres broad and probably 24 in length, with rough 
surface and strongly marked veins; margin slightly crenate, narrowing abruptly to the 
petiole. Only the lower part of this interesting leaf is seen in the specimens collected. I 
refer it to Ficus because of the venation ; but this has also some resemblance to that of Juglans ; 
and more perfect specimens are required to give certainty to the reference above. 
Collected at Coal Brook, by Dr. G. M. Dawson. 
8. FAGUS PROTO-NUCIFERA. 8. N. (Fig. 6, Ga.) 
Leaf oval, of moderate size, pointed at base, veins straight, at angle of 35° to 40°, margin 
entire? Nut small, sharply mucronate, rounded triangular. This species is very near to the 
modern Fugus ferruginea, though the leaf is a little more acute at base, and may have been 
