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DE. HEEE ON THE EOSSIL ELOEA OF BOVEY TEACEY. 
of the ‘ Flora Tertiaria Helvetise and that is the reason why the teeth are there wanting. 
We find them, however, in most of the leaves of D. Banksimfolia. 
Fam. III. Santalace^, E. Br. 
5. Nyssa, Linn. 
25. Nyssa eueop^a, Ung. (Plate LXIX. figs. 11-17.) 
N. putamine 4^7 mm. longo, S-d-l mm. lato, ovali, rarius subgloboso, basi truncate, 
extus striis longitucUnalihus rugosis exarato. 
Unger, Sylloge Plantar. Fossil, p. 16, pi. 7. figs. 25-27. 
Frequent in the 26th bed of Bovey. 
The fruit most probably agrees with the fragments which Unger described as found 
at Nidda in the Wetterau, and which I got from Salzhausen ; the latter are, however, 
somewhat more compressed, and consequently more flattened ; hence the wrmkled 
longitudinal ribs do not project so much. Very similar also is a fruit represented as 
Isijssa rugosa by O. Weber in the ‘ Palmontographia,’ ii. plate 20. fig. 10 c; this fruit 
differs, however, in its shape and smaller dimensions, from two other fruits that were 
mentioned by Weber under the same name. 
AVe cUstmguish amongst the Bovey fruits three forms : — 
a. Oval fruits, 4|- to 5^ millims. long and 3 to 4 millims. wide ; they are truncated 
at the base, in the fore part obtusely rounded and marked with numerous rather deeply 
wrinkled longitudinal furrows (figs. 11-14, magnified 12 h). 
h. Oval fi-uits, 6-7 millims. long and 4-5 millims. wide ; they are also truncated at the 
base, but somewhat rounded, marked with numerous wrinkled longitudinal furrows. They 
are shaped like the stones of Nyssa sylvatica, but are somewhat smaller (figs. 15 & 16). 
c. Nearly globose fruits, 7 millims. long and 6 to 6^ millims. wide; at the base abruptly 
truncate, with strongly marked irregular wrinkled furrows (fig. 17, magnified 17 h). 
The form a is the most frequent ; the form c has been met with in but a few pieces ; the 
form h is not rare, and corresponds most to the fruit-stones of the Wetterau. AVhether 
these forms belong to one or more species, I dare not decide. 
They are very like the fruit-stones of the species of Nyssa which grow at present in 
the United States, especially of Nyssa hiflora and denticulata^ which are represented by 
Gartner (De Fructibus, iii. p. 216). 
26. Nyssa LuEVIgata, m. (Plate LXIX. fig. 18, magnified 18 h). 
N putamine 5-7 mm. longo, 4-5 mm. lato, ovali, basi truncato, Isevigato, extus 
bistriato. 
In the same bed of Bovey ; rare. 
It has the same dimensions and shape as the foregoing species, but it is smooth, 
shining, and without wrinkled furrows, notwithstanding Ave observe on the outside two 
longitudinal lines, which are formed, as in the fruit-stones of Nyssa, by delicate strife. 
