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broken off. It evidently represents the upper portion of a narrowly 
lanceolate leaf, but the termination cannot be properly determined 
although the natural continuation of the side lines would seem to 
indicate an acute apex. There are also two smaller fragments of the 
same type of leaf showing the same characters. 
Mss 


Fic. 3.—TYPHA LEAF. 
The form and general character of this fossil at once suggest 
its relation to Iris, Phragmites or Typha. A critical inspection, how- 
ever, at once shows that the complete absence of distinct nerves must 
serve to exclude it from both Iris and Phragmites, and it must there- 
fore be excluded from all connection with P. alaskana of Heer, as 
