24 EDWARD W. BERRY 
This is another of those widespread Tertiary species which may 
be composite although usually regarded.as simply a variable type. 
The Richmond collections contain eight fragments of leaves which 
are referred with some little hesitation to this species. ‘The venation 
is similar, although it must be admitted that it would serve equally 
well for Fagus, Betula, Ostrya, or Planera; the variability in size is 
in accord with that usually observed in this species as is also the 
general outline. Unfortunately the marginal characters, while they 
suggest this form, are not well enough preserved to be decisive, all 
of the leaves being macerated in exactly the same manner as are the 
delicate leaves of Carpinus caroliniana Walt. after they have floated 
down our southern rivers for a considerable distance. 
Carpinus grandis makes its appearance in the Arctic Tertiaries, 
becoming rather widespread before the close of the Oligocene and 
is recorded from Europe, Asia, and America. It is more especially, 
however, a Miocene type and has been collected from a large number 
of European localities as well as from Japan and the Mascall beds of 
the John Day basin in Oregon. It persists into the Pliocene, being 
recorded from beds of that age in Styria and in Italy (Messinian). 
Family Fagaceae 
Genus Quercus Linné 
QUERCUS MILLERI sp. nov. 
Leaves about 5 cm. in length with a 
mediumly .stout petiole 1.4 cm. long. 
Lobate, with three narrow rather obtusely 
pointed lobes on each side, each traversed 
by a prominent secondary whose angle of 
divergence is less than that of the lohes, 
the secondaries leaving the midrib nearly 
on a line with the basal margin of the 
lobes and running nearer their upper than 
their lower margin to the apex of the 
lobe. Basal lobes forming almost a right 
angle with the midrib, their lower margins 
being very obtusely rounded, almost truncated, to within a milli- 
meter or two of the petiole and then curving slightly downward, 
their secondaries branching at an angle of 55° about one millimeter 
FIG. 3 
