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UPPER MIOCEXE STEATA, SWITZERLAND. 



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and Lower Miocene strata in Switzerland and Germany, especially the 

 cinnamon (see fig. 18S). The leaves of this genns are easily recog- 

 nizable, and often serve as useful guides to the geologist. The fruit 

 also and the flower are found at (Eniugen. 



Professor Heer observes that the fruit in the fossil, fig. 189 «, is 

 more oval in shape than that of the recent Japanese plant, C. cam- 

 jjhora, b, fig. 189, which comes nearest to it, and that the peduncle is 

 not thickened at its upper end as in the living one. 



The vine of (Eningen, Vitis teutonica, Ad. Brong., is of a Xorth 

 American type, approaching nearest to Vitis vulpina, L. ; both the 

 leaves and seeds have been found at (Eningen, and bunches of com- 

 pressed grapes of the same species have been met with in the Brown 

 Goal of "Wetteravia in Germany. 



No less than eight species of smilax, a monocotyledonous genus, 

 occur at (Eningen and in other Upper Miocene localities, the flowers 

 of some of them, as well as the leaves, being preserved, as in the case 

 of the very common fossil S. sagitiifera, fig. 190 a. 



Fig. 190. 



Smilax sagitiifera. Heer, pi. 80, fig. 7. Size § diamecer. 



a. Leaf. b. Flower magnified, one of the six petals wanting at d. Upper Miocene. OZningen. 



c. Leaf of Smilax obtusifolia. Heer, pi. 30, fig. 9 : nat. size. Upper Miocene, (Eningen. 



Plants referable to no less than five genera of the order Proteaceee 

 have been obtained partly from (Eningen and partly from the lacus- 



Fig. 191. 



Fruit of the fossil and recent species of Hakea, a genus of Proteacea?. 

 a. Leaf of fossil species, Hakea salicina. Upper Miocene, OZningen; called EiiibotJirinn 



by Heer, pi. 97, fi?. 29. £ diam. 

 &. Fruit of same. § diam. c. Seed of same. Natural size. 



d. Fruit of living Australian species, Hakea saligna, E. Brown, i diam. 



e. Seed of same. Natural size. 



