1108 General Notes. 
on “ A comprehensive type of fossil cryptogamic life from the Fort 
Union group,” illustrating it by lantern views. The fossil in ques- 
tion was so peculiar that though collected in 1883, he had done 
little with it until the present season. Photographs of it were sent 
to various eminent zoologists and botanists, with a view of deter- 
mining the affinities of the curious specimen. Zoologists could not 
refer it to any animal, and so considered it a plant; while botanists, 
knowing no plant like it, thought it possibly an animal. Prof. 
Ward’s conclusion so far is that it represents a generalized type of 
vascular cryptogam, with relationships to Ophioglossum, Isoetes, 
Marsilea, Lycopodium and Selaginella. It is evidently an aquatic, 
fresh water, as shown by the remains of aquatics in the same con- 
nection. A central, roundish rhizoma or rhizoid, is surrounded by 
slender, flexuous bodies, radiating in all directions, each expanding 
from a rather narrow base to a broad club-like end. The scales 
are arranged in two or three rows; at the base are found numerous 
round bodies like spore cases, and the free end has a flattened blade 
about twice as wide as the main stem and rounded. In the general 
aspect of the rhizoma it is related to Isoetes. In its branches and 
_ fructification to Ophioglossum and Marsilea, and in its scales to 
Lycopodium and Selaginella. Letters from Prof. Farlow, Dr. 
Nathorst and Count Saporta, were read, and these scientists sug- 
gested a possible connection with the same forms of cryptogams as 
Prof. Ward had himself imagined. In a discussion which ensued, 
Prof. Seaman called attention to the similarity the specimens pre- 
sented to the structure of the hairs of Drosera rotundifolia. It 
would indeed be strange if in this fossil plant of Cretaceous times 
we should have foreshadowed and produced on a large scale the 
hairs of Drosera, each acting independently instead of working 12 
common. It must be said, however, that the chances are greatly 1n 
favor of the view of Prof. Ward, that it is a generalized form of 
certain groups of the vascular cryptogams.—Jos. F. James. 
A Hornep Dinosaurtan REPTILE.—In the December ape 
ber of the American Journal of Science and Arts, Prof. O. C. Mars 
describes parts of the skeleton of a Dinosaur from the Laramie for- 
