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864 L. Lesquereux on Fossil Plants of Recent Formations. 
1. Salix densinervis (Lsqx.). Leaves narrow, one and a half to two 
inches long, lanceolate or tapering at both ends, entire. Medial nerve in- 
flated at the base. Secondary nerves very close, anastomosing as in the 
leaves of a fern or of a Trifolium. The nervation is quite peculiar for 
a Salix, and perhaps mien better specimens are found, the plant may be 
referred to another gen 
uercus ! crassinervis? (Ung.). The specimen is broken and shows 
only the middle part of a large, sharply dentate ~~ apparently oval-lan- 
ceolate in outline. e broad nerves and secondary nerves running to 
the poing of the teeth as the form of the acute teeth also- would refer this 
species to Quercus crassinervis Ung., a species found in the Upper Miocene 
on 
3. Quercus Saffordii (Lsqx.). Leaves nearly linear, less than one inch 
broad, five to six inches long, gradually tapering to a point. “— 
regularly and distinctly ee hepa serrate, cuties near the base and de- 
current in a broad petiole or enlarged nerve. Medial nerve broad “ 
flat; secondary nerves sblicue, straight, running to the point of the teeth 
and alternating with short and slender ones. ‘There is not any published 
fossil species that might be compared with this. It is distantly related to 
living species of southern Texas and Mexico, but among the Jeaves kindly 
© me for comparisom by Dr. Asa Gray, there were none of 
ferred. 
4, Andromeda dubia (Lsqx.). A thick, smooth, elliptical, eed 
pointed leaf, with entire, wavy, and somewhat re exed margins and obs0- 
lete nervation. It is nearly related to Andromeda , ferruigies (Michx.) 
the pine barrens of the south. This near relation would indicate that the 
i Bye Se might be found on the islands or along the shores 
ou Sta 
5. Andr aoe, vaccinsfolice afinis. Thick, oval, lanceolate, Bigeye 
obtuse leaves with perfectly the same size, outline and nervatio in 
above mentioned A. vaccinifolia Heer. Its sengtes fai relative a 
America erica is, | think, Andromeda acuminata. But vip 
o 
belong to the Upper Miocene. 
6. Hleagnus ineequalis (Lsqx.). Leaf long, elliptical ase with be 
tire margins, rounded near the base on one side, a oS 
longer and decurrent on the other side of the short ‘tle 
nerves well marked, thick near their base, emerging gt acute i ng 
Ra antete much divided ake I do not kn ont pi brit 
Fossil Leaves collected in the chalky banks of the ig Bi 
near Columbus, Ky., by Dr. D. DALE Owen and L. 
REUX. 
1. Quercus virens (Michx.). Live oak. The leaves of this species 
abundant in the strata. On this oak fee ux remarks that "ae 
itat does not extend to more than to fifteen miles es from 
of the sea in the Southern States. 
