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DE. HEEE ON THE FOSSIL FLOEA OF BOVET TEACET. 
Fam. II. Cypeeace^, DC. 
3. Cypeeites, Hr. 
II. Cypeeites depeeditus, m. (Plate LX. fig. 54.) 
C. fructibus parvulis, ovatis, apice acuminatis, tenuissime striolatis. 
In the 26th bed of Bovey ; fragments only. 
Under the name of Cyperites, I have comprised in my ‘ Flora Tertiaria ’ those remains 
(leaves, culms, and fruits) belonging to plants of the family of the Cyperacese which 
it is not possible now to refer to any genus. The fruits in question very much resemble 
those of Carew, and belong probably to this genus. They are like those of Carex recog- 
nita. Hr., from Pochette. The fruit is 4 millims. in length, and at the base 2y millims. 
in breadth ; it is there obtusely rounded, but tapered and acuminate at the apex. It 
is proHded with very fine longitudinal striae. 
Order H. PPINCIPES, Linn. 
(Palm^.) 
1. Palmacites, Hr. 
12. Palmacites D^monoeops. (Plates LXII., LV. figs. 7-15.) 
P. spatha coriacea, longitudinaliter tenuissime striata granulataque, aculeata, aculeis 
crebris seriatim in lineis oblique transversis conjunctis, compressis, subulatis, rectis, 
simplicibus, binis, trinis, vel ad summum senis, adpressis ; caudice gracili, aculeato, 
fasciculis vasorum rigidis, interne planis vel sulco exaratis. 
Palceospathe Dcemonorops, Unger, Sylloge Plantar. Fossil, p. 9, pi. 2. figs. 9-12. 
Chamcerops teutonica, Ludwig, in Meyer’s Palaeontogr. viii. p. 86, pi. 20. figs. 2 & 3. 
Pretty common in the clay of the 26th bed of Bovey. 
Chiefiy the prickles are found at Bovey. They are black as coal, brilliant, very thin, 
and taper to a fine point. Their length varies from 4 to 50 millims. The longest are 
only 3 millims. in breadth at the base (cf. Plate LV. fig. 13). They are flat, and provided 
with a very shallow longitudinal depression (Plate LXII. fig. 9 J, a specimen highly 
magnified), which in some cases becomes almost a furrow. There are mostly three ot 
them together (Plates LXII. fig. I, and LV. figs. II & 15), and the median one is the 
longest (Plate LXII. figs. 2, 10 & 11, magnified). Sometimes there are but two toge- 
ther, or they are single ; or, on the contrary, there are four, five (Plate LXII. fig. 3), or 
more prickles forming a group. In many pieces I am persuaded that they are not fast- 
ened on the margin of an organ, but pretty regularly distributed on a plane surface. 
Therefore they cannot be simple prickles of the petioles of leaves, as of Chamwrops, 
for which Ludwig has wrongly taken them, as I was convinced on looldng at the pieces 
represented in Plate LXII. fig. 1, and still more when I washed them in water. We 
see then that the bundles of prickles are fastened on and pressed against a very finely 
