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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



VOL. 41. 



venture here to include several lists of the provisional identifications 

 made in the course of a brief preliminary examination of the material. 

 Full elaboration of the fossil specimens is postponed until additional 

 collections may be made covering a wider stratigraphic as well as 

 geographic range. 



The "Big Blue series" in which Prosser ^ classed the Permian of 

 Kansas consists of (1) the Chase group, beginning with the Wreford 

 limestone and ending with the Winfield formation, and (2) the over- 

 lying Sumner group, markedly gypsiferous, and composed of the 

 Marion and Wellington formations. 



For accounts of the numerous pre-Permian formations and the 

 description of the seven formations of the Chase group as well as of 

 the two in the Sumner the reader is referred to the ninth volume of 

 the Reports of the Kansas University Geological Surve}^, published 

 in 1909. 



Fossil plants were collected by me from the Wreford limestone 

 west of Reece (R) ; from shales near the Winfield formation northeast 

 of Washington (W); and from the Wellington formation south of 

 Banner (B), and Carlton (C), and east of Salina (S). For the sake 

 of brevity the names are combined in one list in which, l)y referring 

 to the letters, the floras of the several localities ' and formations may 

 be integrated. 



List of Species Provisionally Identified from the Permian of Kansas. 



Schizopteris cf. trlcJiomanoides,^ . 

 Pecopteris unita. W. 

 Pecopferis 2niinatijidn, W. 

 Pecopteris cf. gehiitzii, W. 

 Pecopteris hemitelioides, W. 

 Pecopteris bucklandi? W. 

 Pecopteris polymorpha, W. 

 Scolecopteris elegans, C. 

 Cladojyhlehis cf. tenuis, C. 

 Callipteris conferta, W, C. 

 Callipteris subauriciilata, S, C, B. 

 Callipteris cf. curretieusis, C. 

 Callipteris ci.Jutieri, R. 

 Callipteris cf. ffoepperti, R. 

 Callipteris oxydata, S. 

 Callipteris tvJiitei, B. 

 Callipteris lyratifoUa? S. 

 Callipteris cf. srheibei, B. 

 Odontopteris brardii W. 

 Odontopteris minor, W. 

 Olenopteris splendens, B, C. 

 Glenopteris lineata, B. 

 Glenopteris sterlifigi, B, C. 

 Glenopteris lohata, C. 

 Neuropteris auriculata? W. 



Neuropteris odontopteroides, W. 



Neuropteris scheuchzeri, var., W. 



Neuropteris permiana, W. 



Taeniopteris niultinervis, W. 



Taeniopteris coriacea, B, C. 



Taeniopteris coriacea, var. linea- 

 ris, B, C. 



HpJienophyllum obovatum, C, B. 



Sphcnophylluni cf. stonhenbergi, 

 W. 



Sphenophyllum cf. thonii, W. 



Sigillariostrobus hastatus, R. 



Noeggerathia? new species, B. 



Cycadospadix? sp., C. 



Cordaites principalis, R. 



Poacordaites linearis? C. 



Walchia pi ni form is, R. 



Walchia cf. filiciforinis, R. 



Walchia, ep., C. 



Voltzia, sp. C. 



Ullmannia? sp., C. 



ScJintzia? cf. anotnala, R. . 



Araucai'ites? sp., C. 



Rhabdocarpos, new species, R. 



Carpolithes, sp., S. B. 



1 Journ. fieol., vol. 10, pp. 703-737. 



2 For exact descriptions of the localities and for excellent descriptions of many of the species, see the paper 

 by E. n. Sellards in the State Survey volume cited. 



