GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF THE TERRITORIES. 39^^ 



FlCUS CORYLIFOLIUS, Lsqx. 



Described from the lower station, the shale above luaia coah Professor 

 B. F. Meek found iu this saurian-bed a fine leaf preserved entire. 



Laurus obovata, Web. Pal., VIII, p. 6G, PI. iii, Fig. 4. 



Leaf coriaceous, entire, oblong-ovate, acuminate, narrowed to ai 

 petiole, pinuately nerved, secondary veins very thin, the lowest ascend- 

 ing parallel to the borders. 



The lowest veins of this leaf only are discernible in the two leaves 

 found. These are slightly broader and shorter than the one figured as 

 marked above, and could be referred to Laurus henzoklea, Web., Fig. 5. 

 of the same plate, but for the secondary veins on a more acute angle of 

 divergence and the narrower medial nerve. I believe, however, that 

 both these leaves of Weber represent the same species. 



Platanus Raynoldsit, Xewb. 



A large fragment of this fine species. The borders are scarcely 

 dentate or less acutely toothed than iu the normal form. The substance 

 of the leaves is evidently coriaceous. 



Viburnum dichotomum, sp. nor. 



Leaf subcoriaceous, thickish ovate-oblong, obtusely pointed, round,, 

 slightly cordate to the i)etiole, sharply serrate from above the middle, 

 pinnately nerved. 



The lowest secondary veins are opposite, at some distance from the 

 upper ones, emerging on an angle of 30° to 35°, branching thrice ; the 

 upper secondary veins are alternate and dichotomous-like, iu separating 

 from the medial nerve, two on each side; the teeth of the borders are 

 entered either by the point of secondary vein or of their branches, as. 

 iu Vibtirmim marginatum ., Lsqx., to which this species is allied. It 

 however differs by the greater thickness of the leaves, the smooth, sur- 

 face, the form of the teeth, whose points are turned upwards, and 

 especially by the peculiar nervation. I have found a single well-pre- 

 served entire specimen of this form. Professor B. F. Meek has another 

 fragment of the same from the same locality. This species is, by its 

 leaves at least, intimately related to Vihiinium elliptkmm. Hook, of 

 Oregon. 



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Blach Butte, red baked shale. 



These shales form the top of small hills about at the same level as the 

 saurian-beds, and at a short distance to the east. They are as hard as 

 bricks, and of the same color. By disintegration they are parted iu thin 

 lamella) in the plane of stratification, but no good specimens can be 

 obtained by the hammer. 



PHRAGMITES OENI^'GENSIS, Al. Br. 



Fragments of roots and rootlets. 



Myrica Torreyi, Lsqx. 



Described already from the shale above the main coal of this locality. 



