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identical with yartita although I prefer to consider it more closely 

 related to dijormc. The occurrence of the latter in the late 'IVr- 

 tiarv in connection with the occurrence of partita in the early 



cate, and this is just what we woiiM anticipate from the Euro- 

 pean evidence. 



Comptonia pedunculata Watelet 



fij.5,(>, 1S(>(>. •P^'ru,p. 1.4„pl.33, 



Myricn p,<h.-n, „l,iln Scliimp., I'nl. lV,/r/., vol. 2. p. 5.55, 1872. 



F/iedridi, ■' Ik'itr. z. Kcnnt. Tertfl. Sach<(Mi,-- Ahh. „,ni. Spk. /V< n^.. 

 u. Thuring., vol. 4, p. 221, pi. 29, figs. 15. IsM^. 



All of Watelet's figures in the work cited al.ovc haxc the appear- 

 ance, both in the venation and outline depiet(>(l, of haviiig had the 

 testimony of the spcciineii> hwuvly >u[)pleiiienied l.y ilie imagina- 

 tion of the artist. Ksj)eeially is this true of tiie leaves which he 

 calls C*o/»/)/o//m pcduiinihiitt and Coin pfonia roliindafd. However, 



entitled to specific raid, specially :is simihir leavo have come to 

 light in the h.wer ( )hg()<-eiie of .^axony, \\";ilelet"> types coming 

 from the Koceiie iSaliles de Hracheiix) of IJeneti. France. The 

 species is well iiamt>d pn/tnicn/ata . a> \Vatelei'> Fig. ('• has the 

 longe.st petiole of anv ('omi)tonia leaf that I have ever seen, it 

 being several times tlie length of the pefioh'> in th.- existing sj)ecies. 

 Examples of leaves of the latter that greatly rcM-mble the fo.^il 



the fo.ssil leaves apparently show round. 'd l<.l.c- with but dight 

 inci.sions, it is probable that the rather fnll lobes overlapped as 

 they do in so many leaves of the modern speci<->. and that in 

 reality the lobes were distinct as they were in die latter. 



In its rounded margins pahnioilala a]iproaclie> laharpii Ileer 

 (ohtusiloba) although I think that this is only an api)aiviu simi- 

 larity. Reasoning from the analogy fiu'nished by the abundant 



