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in the U. S. National Museum (No. 31,711), and on looking at it 

 critically it is found to be undoubtedly the same as the material 

 in hand. It is indeed difficult to see how Professor Fontaine could 

 have overlooked the fact that many of these supposed leaves of 

 Cephalotaxopsis are at least twice the length of even the largest 

 leaves of the Virginia species. 



In his report on the Kootanie plants from Anthracite and Can- 

 more, British Columbia, Dawson x has figured a mat of long, narrow 

 leaves which he refers to Heer's Pinus (Cyclopitus) nordenskioldi. 

 I have not seen this material, but, judging from the drawing alone, 

 I am decidedly of the opinion that it should be referred to Olcandra. 



Locality. — Meridith mine, 3 miles southeast of Nollar's ranch and 

 6 miles southwest of Geyser, Cascade County, Montana. 



CHIROPTERIS SPATULATA Newberry 

 Chiropteris spatulata Newberry, Am. Jour. Sci., 3d ser., vol. 61, 1891, p. 



199, pi. XIV, flgS. I, 2. 



Locality. — Spanish Coulee, 12 miles east of Cascade, Cascade 

 County, Montana. 



PROTORHIPIS FISHERI n. sp. 



Plate XII, Figs. 3, 4 



Leaves of small size and thick leathery texture ; orbicular or per- 

 haps nearly circular in outline, very deeply heart-shaped at base, the 

 lobes broad and rounded; (margin unknown, possibly entire, but at 

 most probably not more than dentate) ; petiole very thick and strong, 

 forking or splitting at the very base of the lamina into two approxi- 

 mately equal branches, which turn abruptly nearly at right angles 

 and apparently there forming for a short distance the basal margin 

 of the lamina, and thence continuing apparently to the lateral mar- 

 gin of the leaf; each main branch forks almost immediately, the 

 branches passing up to supply the middle line of the blade, forking 

 two or three times before reaching the apparent margin ; from both 

 sides of the main branches are several forks, the resulting branches 

 supplying the rounded broad lobes and the lateral areas ; the finer 

 nervation consists of cross-nervilles approximately at right angles 

 to the primary nerves, enclosing large areas which are filled with 

 nearly as strong approximately quadrangular areolation ; in one of 



1 Trans. Roy. Soc. Canada, vol. 10, 1892, sec. iv, p. 



