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parts of the leaf showing the mode of division of the petiole. 

 As a number of figures would be necessary to show the entire 

 leaf a restoration of it is shown in the accompanying text-figure. 

 This restoration is based entirely upon material representing all 

 parts of the leaf and is therefore not hypothetical in any particular. 



It is named in honor of Prof. E. A. Smith, the efficient state 

 geologist of Alabama. Leaflets of this species, nearly all of 

 which are terminal, are also common in the Middendorf clays 

 near Langley, South Carolina. 



This species is markedly distinct from the American species 

 of Deivalquea previously described, all of which were apparently 

 tripartite. Among the European species it is quite similar to 

 the Senonian species Dezvalqiiea insignia Hos. and v. d. Marck 

 which is, however, entirely distinct. It is also similar to Dezvalquea 

 coriacea and Dezvalquea pentaphvlla described by Velenovsky 

 from the Cenomanian of Bohemia. 



As mentioned above this Alabama species shows entire and 

 serrated forms and it is remarkable that wherever this genus has 

 been found to occur in any abundance, two species are usually 

 described, one entire and one with toothed margins. Thus in 

 Germany Dezvalquea haldemiana is entire while Dezvalquea insignis 

 is toothed, and probably both are the leaves of the same plant. 

 In Bohemia Dezvalquea pentaphylla is entire while Dezvalquea 

 coriacea is toothed. In the case of the Alabama plant it is 

 believed that the entire and serrate leaves are specifically iden- 

 tical since the material shows a great many gradations in the size 

 of the teeth and great variability regarding the proportions which 

 the entire part bears to the toothed part on single leaflets. 



Johns Hopkins University, 

 Baltimore, Maryland 



SHORTER NOTES 



The Weeping Willow in Winter. — A large weeping wil- 

 low on the university campus shows, in winter, such a complete 

 change from its " weeping " habit that further information seems 

 desirable. The slender unbranched twigs (one to two feet long), 



