514 G. H. PERKINS — TERTIARY LIGNITE OF BRANDON, VERMONT 



Genus Cinnamomum, Blum. 



Cinnamomum lignitum, Perkins, Vermont Report, 1903-1904, page 200. 



Plate 87, figure 24. (Enlarged three times.) 



This is one of the smallest of the Brandon fossils. It is a very pretty- 

 little species, especially when magnified. It is very regular in form, 

 which is ovate, surface furrowed with fine but distinct longitudinal and 

 somewhat sinuous grooves, lower end blunt, pointed up, with a very 

 distinctly cupped scar where it was attached. Length 10 millimeters, 

 diameter 6 millimeters. 



Genus Drupa, Gop. 



Drupa rhabdosperma, Lesquereux, American Journal of Science, volume 



xxxii, page 360. 



Plate 87, figure 25. (Enlarged five times.) 



This is the most ornate of these fossils, and when sufficiently magni- 

 fied is seen to be elegantly marked over the entire surface with strongly 

 defined corrugations. Only the outer shell has been preserved, as all 

 the specimens are hollow. This outer coating is hard and rather thick. 

 The upper end is beaked, and below the beak is a large triangular scar 

 or, in some cases, opening, lower end regularly rounded. The speci- 

 mens, of which a considerable number have been found, do not any of 

 them seem to be compressed or in any way distorted. The size is varia- 

 ble, but an average specimen is 5 millimeters long and 3 millimeters in 

 diameter. 



Bibliography 



1853. Hitchcock, Edward. Description of a brown coal deposit in Brandon, Ver- 

 mont. American Journal of Science, vol. xv, second series, pages 95-104, 

 figures 1-20. Same article in Geology of Vermont, vol. i, 1861, pages 

 226-240, figures 111-166. 



1861. Lesqukrbux, Leo. On the fossil fruits found in connection with the lignites 



of Brandon, Vermont. American Journal of Science, vol. xxxii, second 

 series, pages 355-363. Same article in Geology of Vermont, vol. ii, pages 

 712-718. 



1862. Hitchcock, C. H. In Proceedings Portland Society of Natural History, vol. i, 



pages 95, plate 5. 



1902. Knowlton, F. H. Notes on the fossil fruits and lignites of Brandon, Ver- 

 mont. Bulletin Torrey Botanical Club, November, 1902, pages 635-641, 

 plate 25. 



1904. Perkins, G. H. On the lignite or brown coal of Brandon and its fossils. 

 Fourth Report, Vermont State Geologist, pages 153-212, plates lxx-lxxxi. 



