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tweuty-two millimeters broad, gradually tapering to the base, and from 

 what is seen from large stones perforated by its impressions, its length 

 was at least fifteen centimeters. Most of tbe specimens whereupon it 

 is represented show it curved or j^altate. It is the only difference 

 remarked in comparing it to the cones, represented by Heer, from the 

 Moletiu ilora, and which are straight. In the flora of Gelinden, by 

 Saporta and Marion, the authors remark, p. 19, that this species does 

 not differ in any character from the living Mexican species, with qui- 

 nate leaves, which now compose the section of the Pseudo-strohus. 



Habitat. — Mostly and more generally found near Fort Marker, by 

 Chs. kSternberg ; some leaves are mixed with the specimen of the former 

 species sent by R. C. Towner from near Claj^ Center. 



Glyptosteobus giiacillimus, Lesqx., Cret. Flor. p. 52, PI. 1, figs. 8, 



11 -IK 



Brandies fasiigiate, very slender, tJtrcad-Wce, mticli divided; leaves 

 imbricate, oppressed, embracing the base, linear-lanceolate, more or less 

 abruptly pointed; cone narrow, cylindrical. 



No new specimens of this remarkably fine species of Conifers has been 

 found ; its reference is therefore still uncertain. I consider it, from the 

 affinity of its characters to those of Frenelites reichii of Ettinghausen, as 

 identical with this species. But its true relation, even if identity was 

 ])ositive, is not the better ascertained for that. Scbimper admits* this 

 Frenelites as a synonym of Sequoia fastig lata, Sternb. The presence ol 

 both these species in the Cretaceous of Kansas would perhaps give to 

 this opinion a kind of authority. But it seems contradicted by the great 

 difference in the appreciable characters of these remains as far as they 

 are known. We can, however, say nothing in regard to the afllinity oi 

 this Glyptostrobus or Frenelites, as long as its cones are unknown. If 

 the scales found in connection with the branchlets and figured in Cret. 

 Flor. PI. I, fig. 8 (enlarged), belong to it, they rather resemble those of 

 the cones of Sequoia condita, which, however, are longer, narrower, and 

 of a different type than those of S. fastigiata. 



Inolepis ? species. PI. lY, fig. 8. 



Cone or fruit globular, five-costate, attached to a branch mixed icith un- 

 determinable remains of conifers. 



The specimen is distinctly represented in the figure ; it shows the 

 deep semi-globular impression of an apparently unopened fruit, marked 

 in the length by five obtuse costee or narrow ribs coming together, and 

 disappearing below the top. The other fragments attached to the stem 

 above this impression appear like the scales of an opened cone or fruit 

 of the same species. I find nothing to which this can be compared but 

 the cross-section of a cone oi Inolepis imbricata, Heer., Flor. Foss. Arct., 

 PI. VXI, fig. 16, supposing that the impression of our specimen repre- 

 sents the outside surface of a cone of this kind deprived of its scales. This 

 afiiuity is indeed a distant one, and the comparison is acceptable merely 

 on account of the connection of this vegetable organism with a mass of 

 decayed and broken remains of Conifers. 



Phyllocladus suBiNTEGRiFOLius, Lesqx., Cret. Flor., p. 54, PI. I, fig. 



12.— Tab. II, fig. 4. 



Leaf eoriar.eous, oval-oblong, tapering from heloic the middle to a short 

 thick petiole ; undulate toward the top and abr^iptly rounded ; middle nerve 



* Paleontologie Vegetable, vol. ii, p. 316. 



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