LL. Lesquereux on Fossil Fruits of Brandon, Vt. 357 
at the other, a little flattened, one inch long, less than an inch 
broad, obscurely costate. 
This species has just the form of the kernel of the almond, 
It is nearly related to Carpolithes pruniformis Heer, (I. c. vol. iii, 
. 139, tab. 141, fig. 18 to 30,) abundant in the upper tertiary of 
urope, especially at Giningen. 
No. 5. ake verrucosa, sp. nov. (Fig. 129.) Fruit oval, slightly 
costate, obtuse at both ends, warty. fe 
This fruit is like Carya Brauniana Heer, (1. ¢., vol. iii, p. 98, 
tab. 127, fig. 50 and 51) from @ningen. It is a little larger than 
me PRONE. but may be the same species still covered with the 
usk, 
No. 6. Carya Vermontana, sp. nov. (Fig. 180.) Nut small, 
about half an inch long, oyal, pointed at one end, obtuse at the 
other, six-costate. 
lt is extremely like Carya Bruckmanni Heer, (loc. cit., vol. 
il, pag. 98, tab. 127, fig. 82) perhaps identical with it, also from 
(ningen, like the former. 
0. 7. Fagus Hitchcockii, sp. nov. (Fig. 126 and 127.) Nut 
sarge, trigonal, with the angles somewhat obtuse, striated on the 
sides, 
and twice as large. Fig. 127 Bee a specimen slightly open 
has pablished Fagus Deucalionis with nuts as large as those of 
the Brandon species. It comes from the tertiary of Bohemia. 
Genus Apeihopsis (Heer). (Cucumites Bowerbank.) Prof. Heer 
has referred this genus to the family of Ttlacee, comparing it 
to Apeiba. It is characterized as follows: Fruit capsular, five 
. 10 sixteen-valvate, polyspermous; seeds small, sub-globose, bise- 
Niate in each cell. On “8 characters of these fruits, the author 
farther remarks: (Flor. tert. Helv., vol. iii, p. e “Where the 
bark of the fruit is preserved, it is marked with e ongated warts 
and the fruit was externally verrucose, Within, it was probably 
filled with a fleshy matter containing the seeds in small cavities, 
1 One specimen, (fig. 20 of Bowerbank) the seeds are placed 
without order in the central mass; in another (ibid., figs. 11, 12, 
21, 34,) they appear to be placed in rows along the suture. 
P. tobably the fruit was divided into as many cells as there are 
furro marked on the surface; but the walls were very thin 
and lost within the fleshy mass.” 
escription and the remarks of Prof, Heer agree well 
*nough with what I was enabled to see by cutting a few of our 
