THE FLORA OF THE SAINT EUGENE SILTS 



405 



Order URTICALES 

 Family Artocarpaceae 

 Genus Ficus Linnaeus 



FiCUS INTERGLACIALIS HolHck 

 Pl\te 34 ; PLATE 35 



Ficus inter glacialis Hollick, New York Bot. Gard., Jour. vol. 

 16, p. 44, pis. 152, 153. 1915. 



''Ficus n. sp. (fruit)." Hollick, Summary Kept. {loc. cit.), 

 p. 134. 



The two plates, that represent a part of a fruiting branch of 

 this species, are reproduced from those that served to illustrate 

 the type specimen as above cited. Plate 34 shows the specimen 

 natural size. Plate 35 shows the median part of the same speci- 

 men enlarged. It might be more or less satisfactorily compared 

 with fruiting branches of any one of several existing species of 

 fig, such as Ficus tccolutensis Miquel, native in Mexico, and F. 

 poimloides Warburg and F. populnea Willdenow, native in the 

 AVest Indies, the last extending northward into Florida. In any 

 event, its close specific relationship to this general type of fig- 

 can hardly be questioned. 



Several species of Ficus, from Upper Cretaceous and Terti- 

 ary horizons, represented by fruit, have been described and 

 figured but none of them indicates specific relationship with 

 ours. 



Ficus canadensis ii. sp. 



Plate 36; pirate 37, figure 1 



"Ficus n. sp. (leaf)." Hollick, Summary Rept. {loc. cit.), 

 p. 134. 



Leaves apparently oblong-ovate in shape, petiolate, entire- 

 margined, with rounded or obscurely cordate bases and simple 

 pinnate nervation. The secondary nerves are alternately ar- 

 ranged, subparallel, subtending uniform angles of about 45° with 

 the midrib, ascending and curving upward in the marginal 

 region. The petioles are stout and from 2 to 3 centimeters in 

 length. 



