DESCRIPTION 0¥ THE SPECIES. 265 



Carpolituus fasciculatus, sp. nov. 



Plate CXXXIV, Fig. 1. 



Seed nut-like, with a hard .smooth surface, broadly elliptical in sliape, 

 sessile, on a short stout stem, crowded into a fascicle, com))aratively large. 



Locality: Fredericksburg'. 



Only one specimen was found. As this fruit has not been found 

 attached to any leaf)- twigs, its j)lace can not be fixed. It occurs at Fred- 

 ericksburg with numerous leafy twigs of t'ephalotaxopsis, and as the fruit 

 of ('cjjhalotaxHs has a nut-like bony seed, it is probable that these fossils 

 belong to some species of the first-named genus. The twig to which the 

 nut-like seeds are still attached is more like the twigs of (Jephalutaxopsis 

 than any of the other coniferous wood found at the locality. 



This fruit and those next to be described have suffered a good deal 

 from maceration; hence, as now presented, they must be more or less 

 disguised. 



Carpolithus ternatus, sp. nov. 



Plate CXXXIV, Figs. 2-4, 6, 8. 



Seeds oblong, obtuse, smooth, grouped in threes, the individuals more 

 or less united and sessile, attached to the sides and summits of short stout 

 stems, which are attached to thick, woody, principal branches; texture of 

 the nut like seed hard and woody. 



Locality: Fredericksburg; rather common. 



This is the most abundant Carpolithus at Fredericksburg. Tlie seeds 

 have a peculiar character of union at the bases, forming a palmately 

 three-lobed cluster. Possibly this union, real or apparent, may be due to 

 the innnaturity of the seed if it is real, for they show gradations in separa- 

 tion wliic-h seem to be connected with age, the oldest and largest being 

 most distinct. Thus in Fig. f! the lowest group on the right-hand side 

 shows seed separated nearly to the base, while in some groups, as in the 

 upper part of Fig. 4, the individuals are united nearly to their summits. 

 These seed also are probably those of dphalotaxopsis. They remind one 

 of Lesquereux's I'Jqitisctum tjlohulosum. (See Cretaceous and Tertiary 

 Floras, PI. XLVIII, Fig. 3.) 



