1012 — Recent Literature. 
286 are Cryptogams and 1254 are Phanerogams. The Crypto- 
gams are 119 cellular and 167 vascular, and the Phanerogams — 
are 125 Gymnosperms and 113 are Angiosperms. The Angio — 
sperms embrace 467 apetalous, 406 polypetalous, and 106 gamo — 
petalous species.” The comparison that is made between this — 
flora and that of the Cretaceous systems below, and the Eocene — 
above, is highly instructive. It is well known that the students 
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eontology of the Vertebrata have been equally certain that this j 
system must be placed at the summit of the Cretaceous. tne 
specialists in Invertebrata have not produced very strong ewi- — 
dence either way. It is therefore a matter of much interest that — 
Mr. Ward, after this full survey of the flora, writes as follows: — 
“Taking all these facts into consideration, therefore, 1 do not 
hesitate to say that the Laramie Flora as closely resembles the — 
Senonian Flora as it does either the Eocene or the Muiocene — 
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settle finally the reference of the Laramie to the peer 
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_ treatment of the subject, this book is admirab 
Batrachians and Reptiles of Central America and 
—In this Bulletin (No. 32) of the United States Na 
seum Prof. E. D. Cope has published a synony™ title. Th 
graphical catalogue of the animals referred to in the 2 
West Coast Shell «ye ee f the Marine, Fresh: Wate 18 
Land Mollusks of cog alleen pe wa ‘of the Rocky Mountains: 
> Keep, A.M. San Francisco: Bancroft Bros. & Co., 1887- ae 
