DESCRIPTION OF SJ'ECIBS. 221 



Cabpites tlliaceus? Heer. 

 PL XXII, Figs, 6, 7. 



Mioc. Bait. FL, p. 101, PI. xxx, Figs. 42, 43. 



Fruit globose, with live carpels; carpels woody, verticellate. 



This round, suiall seed, as represented in Fig. 6, is similar to that 

 described and ligured by Heer (loc. cit.). The ideutilication is, however, 

 very uncertain, like that of those rare fossil truits as yet found in the shale 

 of the Dakota Groujj. I consider Fig. 7 as a crushed fragmentary part of 

 the same species. 



Habitat: Kansas. In the collection of Mr. K. D. Lacoe. 



Gaepites conigeb, sp. nov. 

 PI. XXXVIII, Fig. 17. 



Seed round-conical, rounded at base, 5™™ long, and as large in the mid- 

 dle. Relation unknown. 



Habitat: Ellsworth County, Kansas. No. S32 of the collection of the 

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



Cabpites obovatus, sp. nov. 

 PI. LXII, Fig. 5. 



Fruit, hard, sitbglol)ose or lenticular, 4"'" long, 4""" broad, subcuneate 

 at the u[)per slightly broader end, covered with a thick, leathery pulveru- 

 lent smface. 



Itis comparable to some fruits of the Laurinere. It is also like, Ijut a little 

 smaller than, that ligured by Heer without name or remark in the Miocene 

 Bait. Fl., PI. XXII, Figs. 18 and 10. It is half imbedded hi a piece of fer- 

 ruginous sandstone and not accompanied bv I'emains of leaves. 



Habitat: Ellsworth County, Kansas. No. 119Ua of the museum of the 

 University of Kansas; E. P. West, collector. 



Cabpites? sp. Lesq. 



CarpoUthes f Lesq., Cret. FL, p. 114, PL xxvii, Fig. 5 ; PL xxx, Fig. 11. 



Calycites sp. 

 PL XXII, Fig. 8. 



Apparently a deformed calyx, with linear, short divisions. No relation 

 known to it. 



Habitat: Kansas. In the collection of Mr. R. D. Lacoe. 



