(73) 
also suggests that it might be a fragment of lex Masont 
Lesq. There are several similar fragments in my collection. 
MORACEAE. 
Ficus Linn. Sp. Pl. ro59. 1753. 
The existing species number some six hundred shrubs and 
trees of the warmer parts of the globe everywhere, chiefly in 
Asia, Africa and the East Indian Islands. Two species 
enter the limits of the United States, occurring in Florida 
and the West Indies. About one hundred species of F2czs 
occur in America in the following formations: Potomac 2, 
Raritan 3, Island Raritan 5, Dakota 23, Woodbine 1, Mon- 
tana 16, Vancouver 6, Laramie 21, Livingston 1, Denver 9g, 
Ft. Union 5, Green River 5, Tertiary of Yellowstone Park 
4, Eocene 6, Eolignitic 6, Miocene 7, Atane 3, Patoot 2, 
Greenland Tertiary 1. 
Recorded by Ettingshausen from Tertiary of New Zealand 
(Trans. N. Z. Inst. v. 23); now extinct there, though living 
in Australia. 
Ficus RETICULATA (Lesq.) Knowlton. Fl. 52. f.5; pl. 53. 
SJ. Ly 4. 
Laurophyllum reticulatum Lesq. Ann. Rep. U. S. Geol. 
& Geog. Surv. Terr. 1872: 425. 1873; Cret. Flora, 
76. pl. 15.f. 4, §+ 1874. 
Ficus laurophylla Lesq. Ann. Rep. U. S. Geol. & Geog. 
Surv. Terr. 1874: 342. pl. 5. fi. 7. 1876. Cret. & 
Tert. Fl. 49. fl. 7. f. 12, 13. 1878; Fl. Dak. Group, 
85. 1892. 
Ficus reticulata Knowlton, Bull. U. S. Geol. Surv. 152: 
104. 1898. 
Heretofore known from the Dakota Group of Kansas. 
The Cliffwood remains consist of the impressions of the 
under surface of leaves rather fragmentary, and indicate an 
oblong-lanceolate leaf 2-3.5 cm. in width, with an entire 
margin and rather stout midrib; secondaries branch at an 
obtuse angle, unequal, becoming marginal; venation some- 
