362 L, Lesquereux on Fossil Fruits of Brandon, Vt. 
wrinkles like those of the Carya. This Carpolithes venosus is a 
species of the lignites of Bohemia. 
o close this examination, I have still to mention a piece of 
the wood found in the lignites of Brandon. This wood, some- 
what hardened and blackened, is still in a good state of preser- 
vation. It is soft enough to be cut with a knife, or at least easily 
broken, and on a section, it shows evidently the character of a 
Dicotyledonous wood. It cannot be specifically determined, of 
course; but it looks like the wood of a Juglans or a Carya. | 
Before I had had an opportunity of examining the fossil fruits 
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tions eee by Prof. Hitchcock (1. c.) I had, in a letter to 
Prof. J. D. Dana, given the opinion that the Brandon lignites 
This opinion is fully confirmed by all that has been said above 
of the relation of those fruits with species of (iningen. It 3s 
true that the identity of species is not ascertained; but this, of 
course, can not be expected; and it is enough that the greatest 
number of the Brandon species are more generally related to 
species of (Hningen, than to species of any other stage of the 
Tertiary, to authorize the above conclusion and to render 1 
credible. 
Prof. Hitchcock’s paper, I must believe that they are of re 
same age as the upper lignite formation that extends on bo 
sides of the Mississippi, and which I had opportunity to a> 
in Arkansas, in company with my friend Prof. E. T. Cox. as 
general section of the Tertiary of Dallas county, Arkansas, pre 
sents in an exact manner a resumée of a number of local se 
tions of that country. It is given in detail in the Geologic 
Report of Arkansas by Dr. D. Dale Owen (vol. ii, p. 410) thus: 
General Section of the Tertiary of Dallas county, Arkansas. : 
Waterworn pebbles and gravel cemented by ferruginous ¢° 
glomerate. 
Place of fossil, generally silicified wood. ‘ a fer- 
ted sandy clay, sometimes Savage good iron ore an 
Pagpons sandstone, the last much fluted. 
_ daght colored sand, 
