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Ecspecting the above characters, our species is allied partly to Aralia 
multijida, Sap., from the Tertiary Flora of the Provence, partly to the living 
A. el eg cins, Hort. Par., from Granada, to which Saporta compared his already 
named species. But the distinguishing character of our species is, that the 
segments of leaf are more turned towards the apex, and that the intermedial 
sinus are very narrow. 
Locality and Horizon. — Between Hill and Watson’s shafts, in white 
pipeclay, from the Old ltose Valley Lead, on the Main Vegetable Creek Deep 
Lead, near Emmaville (Vegetable Creek Township). 
Aralia prisca, sp. non. 
Plate XIII, Figs. 23, 24. 
Sp. Char. — A. foliis coriaceis, petiolatis, prof unde palmato-septemlo- 
batis, lobis valdc angustis, longis, integris ; nervatione actinodroma ; nervis 
primariis validis, subangulo 30° inter se divergentibus ; nervis sccundariis 
tenuibus, subangulis 00-70° orientibus, arcuatis, simplicibus ; nervis tertiariis 
e primariis angulo recto, e secundariis extus angulis, acutis egredientibus, 
dictyodromis. 
Ohs. — Two fragments of leaves of this species are before us. They 
offer characters in some measure complemental. Fig. 23 shows a fragment of 
a large palmatisect leaf, with its base. Only two of the seven lobes, as well 
as their strong primary nerves, arc partly preserved. The base of the leaf 
shows a fragment of a thick petiole and seven primary nerves diverging from 
one another at pretty acute angles. By completing the shape of the leaf from 
its fragments, I find that the lobes are narrow, very long, and undivided. 
The nervation is partly preserved on the fragment, Fig. 2d, belonging to a 
smaller leaf of the same species. Its primary nerves have the same acute 
angle of divergence. The secondary nerves, less acutely diverging, are fine 
and strongly curved along the borders. Tertiary nerves and reticulation only 
incompletely preserved. The former arc at right angles to the primary nerve, 
and at oblique angles to the secondary. Fig. 23a (magnified) represents a 
part of the leaf exhibiting its network. 
Of the fossil Araliat, as yet published, the following arc allied to our 
species : Aralia primigenia, l)c la Harpe, respecting the long, narrow, and 
undivided lobes; A. multifida , Sap., and A. dissecta, Lesq., relating to their 
