MISCELLANEOUS. 



No. 1204. Cycadoidea megalophylla, Buckl. 



(Syn. Mantdlia nidiformis. Brongu.) 

 This short, spheroidal trunk probably- 

 belonged to a Cycad, — a tropical plant 

 related to the Conifers in structure and 

 fructification, but totally different in 

 habit. It supported a tuft of large, pin- 

 nated, palm-like leaves ; and the sur- 

 face is covered with rhomboidal scars 

 formed by the attachment of the leaf- 

 stalks. Its shape has caused it to be 

 named " Crow's Nest" by the quarrymen. Neither leaves nor fruit have been 

 found. From the Purbeck beds (Wealden), Isle of Portland, England, and now 

 in the Ward Museum, University of Rochester. Size, 12 x 12. Price, $2.50. 



No. 1205, Cycadoides megalophylla, Buckl. 



A more compressed form of the preceding. The original is in the private 

 Geological Cabinet of Mr. Ward, Rochester. Size, 15 x 14. Price, $2.25. 



No. 1206 Dammarites 



Sternb. 



A Conifer from the Inferior Oolite, Burton, Somerset, England. 



Size, 6x6. Price, $0.75. 



No. 1207. Nipadites Burtini, Brong. 



This fossil palm-nut is so called from its resemblance to the fruit of the ex- 

 isting Nipa of Bengal and the East Indies. The Nipa is allied to the cocoa-nut 

 tribe on the one side, and on the other to the screw-pine. It is a low-growing 

 plant, luxuriating in marshy tracts at the mouths of great rivers. From the 

 Eocene clay, Schserbeck, Belgium, and now in the Ward Museum, University of 

 Rochester. Size, 8x7. Price, $1.25. 



