804 General Notes. [September, 
sandstone is not very great, the stone can be distinguished by a 
good observer; and the question seemed to be finally set at rest 
by the discovery, in the same quarry, of Devonian rocks with 
Holoptychius, overlaid by a bed of conglomerate which graduates 
upward into the reptiliferous sandstone. 
Jurassic—The Bulletin of the French Geological Society (April, 
1885) contains a note upon the zones of the inferior oolite of the 
southern border of the Paris basin. The zones are, M. de Gros- 
souvre maintains, best characterized by various species of am- 
monites ; lamellibranchs and gastropods having in that region too 
great a vertical range. 
Cretaceous.—M. Dollo has a note upon a tooth of Craspedodon 
_ lonzeensis, an ornithopod dinosaurian from the Middle Senomian 
of Lonzée. The tooth is furnished with large ridges on the sides 
and is minutely crenellated on the front upper edge of the crown. 
Three teeth are all that has yet been found of the genus, which 
raises the number of ornithopodous genera to twelve. 
Dollo (Ann. de la Soc. Scient. de Bruxelles) has a note upon the 
presence of a median basioccipital canal and two hypopasa 
canals in Plioplatecarpus marshi, a mosasaurid. These canals 
are by their discoverer believed to have served for the passage of the 
occipital sinus and infrajugular veins. In a skeleton of the gif 
species M. Dollo has also discovered an interclavicle, a bone no 
before known to exist in the Mosasauria. On the strength of this 
peculiarity M. Dollo divides the Mosasaurians into Plioplate- 
carpide and Mosasauride. sation 
Tertiary—-M. Depenet and Rerolle conclude an examiné 
, BOTANY.! 2 by 
__ THE PHALLOIDE# OR STINK-HORN Funci—A gar ie lit- 
_ Dr. Fischer, of the University of Berne, brings yoo Fa ce 
_ €rature of this interesting group of fungi. Seventy-t r parES 
are recognized, and these are distributed into eleven § 
a Edited by Professor CHARLES E,' Bessey, Lincoln, Nebraska. ere 
= „„ Versuch einer systematischen Uebersicht über die bisher bekannten Phalloid 
~ Von Dr. Ed. Fischer, Berlin, 1886. 
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