66 
KEW HOLLAND IN EUROPE 
On paying some years ago a visit to the fine collection of fossils of Count 
Gazola, in Verona, my attention was di'awn to a well-preserved leaf from Monte 
Bolca, of which I then made a drawing in my pocket-boot (Fig. 20). I car- 
ried it a long time about with me, without finding anything that resembled it, or 
obtainmg a solution from the descriptions and figures of fossil plants published 
by D. Massalongo. I am now inclined to believe that this leaf also belongs to 
Froteace(^^ and slioiild compare it ioLoinatia tlnciorla {Umlothrium finctorium, 
Fig. 21 
Fig. 20. 
LabiU.) of Jf ew Holland (Fig. 21). The leaf of that plant, lite that of the fossil, 
IS pmnatilld, with a tendency to become bipinnatifid, 
ments, pointed at the ends. 
the s 
Both have long-linear seg- 
The difference between the two consists solely in 
'gments of the living plant bemg very slightly attenuated towards the base 
and matmg the rhachis appear winged, whilst in the fossH both are so much 
reduced that the leaf appears to be pinnate rather than pmnatifid. Unfortu- 
nately my rough sketch does not show the venation of the fossil, but that can 
scarcely differ revj much from that of the leaves with wliich it has been compared. 
