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Genus COMEPHYLLUM Emmons. 
CoMEPHYLLUM CRIsTATUM Emmons. 
Pl. XLVI, Fig. 3. 
1857. Comephyllum cristatum Emm.: American Geology, Pt. VI, p. 128, fig. 97. 
A single specimen of an imprint of Emmons’s plant Comephyllum 
eristatwm was seen in his collection. It bears his field label with that 
name. It may be the original of his fig. 97 of the plant described in 
American Geology, Pt. VI, p. 128. If so, it does not agree in some 
points with the figure given. This may be due to the splitting off of 
some portions of the shale after the drawing was made. The specimen 
as it now exists does not show any stem, and the narrow basal portion 
of the supposed leaf and the imprints Emmons supposed to be 
nerves, that curve to the leaf, are wanting. The imprint is too vague 
to show, with the small amount of material, the character of the plant. 
Hence I leave it with Emmons’s name. The fossil seems to be a 
bundle of narrow pine-like leaves, each with a single nerve, that 
diverge from a common point and curve around to the right. The 
group gives the appearance of a cock’s tail. There is no trace of a 
membrane or lamina between the leaves. The linear imprints are not 
nerves, but appear to be acicular leaves. It is most like Schizolepis 
Brauniti and may be that plant. Pl. XLVII, Fig. 3, represents the 
specimen. 
Genus LEPACYCLOTES Emmons. 
LEPACYCLOTES CIRCULARIS Emmons.! 
. Pl. XLVI, Fig. 4. 
1856. Lepacyclotes circularis Emm.: Geological Report of the Midland Counties of 
North Carolina, p. 332, pl. iii, fig. 4. 
1857. Lepacyclotes circularis Emm.: American Geology, Pt. VI, p. 180, pl. iii, fig. 4. 
1883. Araucarites carolinensis Font.: Older Mesozoic Flora of Virginia, Mon. U. 8. 
Geol. Survey, Vol. VI, p. 119, pl. xlix, fig. 8. 
LEPACYCLOTES ELLIPTICUS Emmons. 
Pl. XLVHU, Fig. 5; Pl. XLVIII. 
1856. Lepacyclotes ellipticus Emm.: Geological Report of the Midland Counties of 
North Carolina, p. 332, pl. iii, fig. 6. 
1857. Lepacyclotes ellipticus Emm.. American Geology, Pt. VI, p. 129, fig. 98; pl. iii, 
fig. 6. ~ 
1883. Araucarites carolinensis Font.: Older Mesozoic Flora of Virginia, Mon. -U. 8. 
Geol. Survey, Vol. VI, pp. 118, 119, pl. 1ii, figs. 4, da. . 
_ Emmons describes certain singular plant fossils in American Geology, 
Pt. VI, p. 129, as a new genus, which he calls Lepacyclotes. He gives 
1 Described in connection with L. ellipticus, below. 
