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and a Fruit from the Cretaceous (Dakota Group) 

 of Kansas/' in Contributions from the New York 

 Botanical Garden, No. 31, says, on page 102: " In- 

 cluded in a collection of fossil-plant remains from 

 the Cretaceous (Dakota Group) of Kansas, recently 

 obtained by the New York Botanical Garden from 

 Charles H. Sternberg of Lawrence, Kansas, are 

 two exceedingly interesting specimens, one repre- 

 senting a large petal, the other a fleshy fruit. Petals 

 are exceedingly rare, and I am not acquainted with 

 any published figure of anything of the kind which 

 can compare with ours in regard to either size or 

 satisfactory condition of preservation." 



Of the fig, the Doctor remarks: "The fruit is 

 plainly that of a fig, and, although some twenty- 

 three species of Ficus have been described from the 

 Dakota Group, they were based upon leaf impres- 

 sions. This fossil has every appearance of many 

 dried herbarium specimens, and it is evident that it 

 must have possessed considerable consistency in 

 order to retain its original shape, as it has done to a 

 certain extent, under the pressure to which it must 

 have been subjected." 



In 1888 I sent over three thousand leaf impres- 

 sions from the Dakota sandstone to Dr. Lesquereux, 

 and he selected from them over three hundred and 

 fifty typical specimens, many of them new, for the 

 National Museum. Hundreds of others, identified 



