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with smooth surfaces. They are not unlikely of different species. They are probably 

 gymnospermous and may belong to Cycads or Taxineœ. 



Cyperites (Sp.) (Fig. 16.) 



Fig. 16. — Cyperites. 



A slender grass-like stem with linear finely striate leaves, alternately disposed, and 

 not proceeding from enlarged joints.' Apparently au herbaceous monocotyledonous plant. 



III. — Lists of Plants of the Kootanie G-roup. 



I give below a summary of the plants hitherto described from the Kootanie G-roup, 

 including those in the previous papers referred to above. 



I. — From the Queen Charlotte Islands. — Dawson in appendix to Eichardson's Report of ISTS. 

 Eeport aeol. Survey of Canada for 1872-^3, p. 66. 



Dioonites Columbianus, Dawson. — Large fruits of the size of a hen's egg, petioles show- 

 ing structure and fragments of leaves. For figure and description see Report cited. 



Taxoxylon. — Wood showing structure and resembling that of modern Taxine trees. 



Cupressoxylon. — Wood having structure not very dissimilar to that of the modern 

 Sequoia gigantea. 



IL — From the Kootanie District and the region of the Suskiva River, the vicinity of Canmore and 

 other places in the Rocky Mountains, north of the i9th parallel. — Paper by J. W. 

 Dawson on the Mesozoic Floras of the Rocky Mountain region of Canada, Trans. 

 Geol. Society of Canada, 1885. 



Dicksonia, Sp. — Martin Creek. 



Asplenium Martinianum, Dawson, allied to A. Whilbyense, Heer, Martin Creek, etc. 



Aspleniiim Dicksonianum, Heer, Crow's Nest Pass, Canmore, etc. This species is found 

 in the Lower Cretaceous of G-reenland. 



A. distans, Heer, (Pecopteris recentior, L. and H.) Jurassic of Siberia and of 

 Enorland. 



Dioonites borealis, Dawson, Martin Creek, Canmore, Willow Creek. 



Podozamiles lanceolatus, Lindley, Martin Brook, N. Kootanie Pass. Extensively 

 distributed in the Upper Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous. 



Zamites Montana, Dawson, Martin Brook, Kootanie Pass. 



Z. acutipennis, Heer, Martin Creek ; Heer's specimens were from the Lower Cretaceous 

 of Greenland. 



Z. (species) — Near Canmore. 



Anomozamites, Sp. — Martin Brook. 



Sphenozamites, Sp. — Martin Brook. 



