recent species represented in our collection. They correspond with the seeds found at 

 Tegelen, and like them they seem to connect Vitis Hookeri Heer (Lower Miocene, Bovey 

 Tracey) with the living V. vinifera *. The lignite of Bovey Tracey is of the same date 

 as the lignite of Wetterau ; but V. Hookeri is only known from England. It may be a 

 temperate species, washed down from the high hills of Dartmoor. We do not like to 

 refer V. Hookeri with confidence to the living V. vinifera, as nearly all the associated 

 plants are extinct ; but the close resemblance suggests that in V. Hookeri we have the 

 ancestor of our grape*vine, appearing for the first time with such a modernslooking plant 

 as Rubus microspermus, a species closely allied to our common R. fruticosus. 



Seeds and tendrils of V. vinifera are common at Reuver, Swalmen, and Brunssum, 

 as well as at Tegelen. Most of them have been broken. 



VITIS cf. ORIENTALIS Boiss. 

 PI. XII, fig. 14. 



Two specimens belonging to another species of Vitis have been found. 



Seeds roundly obovate minutely beaked below, slightly cordate above; ventral 

 face rounded, obliquely wrinkled; chalaza lanceolate; dorsal faces much flattened, 

 with deep elongate pits. 



Length 3.4 mm., breadth 2.8 mm. Reuver. 



Without more specimens we should not like definitely to refer these to V. orien= 

 talis, for the resemblance is not exact, and the testa is thicker in the fossils. We find it 

 difficult to obtain perfectly ripe seeds of many species of Vitis for comparison. 



GENUS? 

 PI. XII, fig. 15. 



A single specimen of a large seed, which has germinated, seems to belong to Vitaceae, 

 but we cannot suggest its generic position. It does not appear to be referable to Vitis. 



Seed large ovate pointed at base; ventral face slightly rounded; chalaza large 

 roundly ovate, below the middle; dorsal face tumid, 2*facetted, with a long narrow 

 shallow groove in each facet. 



Length 7.5 mm., breadth 4.7 mm. Reuver. 



MALVACEAE. 



ALTHAEA CRASSICARPA Sp. nov. 

 PI. XII, fig. 16. 



Carpella magna, dura, oblique ovata, carinis rotundatis tenuiterque 

 SULCATIS INTER se fossa conspicua secreta; costae radiantes in carinis validae, trans 



FOSSAM DORSALEM INTERRUPTAE, CITO IN LATERIBUS EVANESCENTES. 



Carpel large thick hard, obliquely ovate ; keels rounded, faintly grooved, separ* 

 * C. and E. M. Reid, The Lignite of Bovey Tracey. Phil. Trans, ser. B, vol. 201 (1910), p. 165. 



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