1885.] Lemuroidea and the Insectivora of the Eocene Period, etc. 457 
natives! is probably Adium canadense L., and these are now rel- 
ished by the Maine Indians. This species also furnishes food to 
the Indians of the Northwest? and with A. cernuum formed 
almost the entire source of food for Marquette and his party on 
their journey in 1674 from Green bay to Chicago (to use modern 
geographical locations). This species does not, however, extend 
to Mexico, and we do not find mention of species native to the 
West Indies which would explain P. Martyr’s or Cortes’ mention, 
although A. gracile Ait., the Jamaica garlic, might answer for 
one, for these old warriors were not very choice in their applica- 
tion of well-known names to newly discovered plants, if there 
was any apparent resemblance. We may only suppose that the 
introduction of these vegetables from the West Indies, where 
brought by the Europeans, to Mexico, may have preceded the 
appearance of the Spaniard. 
The chives (Aium schenoprasum) occurs in America about 
Lake Huron, and is also wild in Temperate and Northern Eu- 
rope, Siberia and Kamschatka.’ 
(Tobe continued.) . 
10: 
THE LEMUROIDEA AND THE INSECTIVORA OF 
THE EOCENE PERIOD OF NORTH AMERICA. 
BY E. D. COPE. 
WO distinct divisions are included in this article, because the 
material is not yet sufficiently complete to enable me to refer 
certain forms to the one rather than the other. The only charac- 
ters on which the osteologist can rely in endeavoring to distin- 
guish the two groups are these: First, the terminal phalanges of 
the Insectivora are compressed and curved, forming claws; while 
those of the Lemuroidea and of most other Primates are more or 
less flat, and at the extremity rounded and depressed,* or more or 
less like hoofsë Second, the hallux or inner toe of the posterior 
foot is opposable to the others, a character dependent on the 
form of the entocuneiform bone of the tarsus, which has in that 
1 Josselyn’s Rarities, 84. 
2R. Brown, Bot, Soc. of Ed.,1x, 380. 
3 De Candolle, Origin of Cult. Pl, 437- 
*See Adeantcan NATURALIST, April, 1885, where the Condylarthra are referred, 
with the Quadrumana, to the Ungulata. 
5 The marmosets are exceptions, having true claws. 
