L. Lesquereux on Fossil Fruits of Brandon, Vt. 359 
It is on specimens of this last species that my examination 
was made. They appear abundant at Brandon but I have seen 
only three specimens of the former. 
10. Aristolochia Giningensis, Heer. (Fig. 134.) Fruit cap- 
sular, oval, six-costate, smooth or obscurely transversally rugose. 
I cannot see any difference between our American specimen 
and Heer’s figure of this species, except perhaps that the surface 
of the specimen appears somewhat transversally rugose. This 
appearance may be due to the process of maceration. Prof. 
itchcock’s figure in this Journal (loc. cit. 1853) is quite the 
same as that of Heer (tab. 100, fig. 11, C. 1856), from a specimen 
of (Kningen. 
No. 11. Aristolochia curvata, sp. nov. (Fig. 185 and 186.) Fruit 
capsular, small, half an inch long, oval, pointed, marked with 
eight strong costs, somewhat curved on one side. 
No. 12. Aristolochia obscura, sp. nov. (Fig. 187, 188, and 141). 
Fruit capsular, small, one third of an inch in diameter, six or 
S8even-costate, globular or a little flattened. 
his species is uncertain. The specimens are not well pre- 
served and I had not any for anatomical examination. I believe 
nevertheless that it is a specimen of this kind that Prof. Bailey 
critically examined by across section. He found it a sia- 
valved pod, with seeds apparently flattened. This agrees with the 
structure of the fruit of Aristolochia. 
o. 18. ndus Americanus, sp. nov. (Fig. 142, 148, 144, 
145.) Fruit oval-reniform, either smooth or irregularly rugose, 
depressed or flattened on one side, about half an inch in its 
greatest diameter. 
These fruits have the general form of the fruit of Cocculus 
Indicus or of some fossil species of Pavia. They are smaller 
than the fruits of Pavia and moreover the cross section of one of 
the specimens (fig. 144) shows a fleshy cotyledonous substance 
enclosed in a thick putamen. e fruits also bear a marked 
Fruit obovate, narrowed at one end, where it bears a roun 
Small cavity, inflated and obtuse at the other end, a little curved 
ooth. 
do not know of any fossil ies to which this could be 
Telated. It is a gee as Prof Hitchcock describes it; but 
itis a little curved on one side, a character that anne it from 
Laurus, the specimens are much broken, this curved ap- 
pearance may result from maceration, and if so, the species would 
