178 THE FLOEA OF THE DAKOTA GROUP. 



Ilex DAifOTENSis, sp. nov. 

 PI. XXIX, Fig. 11. 



Leaves small, coriaceous, lanceolate, taperiug to the apex, naiTOwed to 

 the short petiole; mecliau nerve narrow; secondaries very thin, mostly obso- 

 lete, camptodrome. 



A very small leaf, of the same form and nervation as those of /. steno- 

 pkylla Ung., a species which is very common in the Miocene of Europe, and 

 is figured by various authors, especially by Unger in Syll., pt. 2, p. 14, 

 PI. Ill, Figs. 15-27. The leaves of the European species are a little larger, 

 more gradually narrowed to the petiole, obtuse or blunt pointed and not 

 acuminate. The nervation is of the same type that is distinctly repre- 

 sented in Fig. 23 (loc. cit). Therefore there is no other difference in the 

 character of the leaves than the apparently acuminate form of the Kansas 

 leaf. 



Habitat: Ellsworth County, Kansas. No. 498 of the museum of the 

 University of Kansas. Collected by E. P. West. 



Ilex strangulata Lesq. 



Hayden's Ann. Kept., 1874, p. 359, PI. vii, Fig. 8; Cret. and Tert. Fl., p. 84, PI. in, 



Fig. 7. 



Ilex Sctjdderi, sp. nov. 

 PI. LVIII, Fig. 2. 



Leaves coriaceous, entire, lanceolate, polished on the surface; midrib 

 narrow; secondaries parallel, distant, much curved and camptodrome, at a 

 distaiKH^ from tlie borders, which they follow in double areoles. 



Only one leaf of this species has been observed as yet. It is 7"" to 

 8""" long, with the apex destroyed, 3"™ broad at the middle, gradually nar- 

 rowed to a petiole 12°"° long, slightly arched to one side, with eight pairs of 

 secondaries, the lower of which are thin, close and parallel to the borders, 

 at a slightly more acute angle of divergence, the others thick, gradually 

 more open; nervilles distinct, traversing the areas at various angles, and 

 composing lai'ge primary areoles. 



This species is closely related in form and nervation to I. longifoUa 

 Heer, as figured in Fl. Foss. Arct. (vol. 2, pt. 4, PI. lvi, Fig. 1), differing 

 mostlv liy its entire borders. The secondaries, their mode of relative posi- 

 tion, and their large bows along the borders, are of the same character. 



