DE. HEEE ON THE FOSSIL FLOEA OF BOVET TEACEY. 
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The leaf is very long and narrow, tapering gradually towards the base ; and also 
elongating into a very long point. From the median nerve spring rather numerous 
secondary neiwes, which are highly incurved, forming near the margin arches that run 
nearly parallel with the latter ; these arches are very dehcate, and can only be traced 
by the aid of a lens. The reticulation of the areas is only slightly indicated. 
Order III. EUBIACIN^. 
Fam. I. Kubiace^, Juss. 
1. Gaedenia, Ell. 
33. Gaedeata Wetzleei, Hr. (Plate LXIX. figs. 1-8.) 
G. fructibus hgnosis, oblongo-ovahbus vel ovato-lanceolatis, subcostatis et multistri- 
atis, polyspermis, semhiibus nigro-brunneis, nitidis, striis spirahbus notatis. 
Heer, Flora Tertiaria Helvetiee, iii. p, 192, pi. 141. figs. 81-103. 
Passijiora Bmunii, Ludwig, Palaeontograph. viii. p. 124, pi. 48. figs. 1, 4, 5 & 16. 
Bovey Tracey, in the 34th bed. 
At Bovey no complete fruits have been found hke those which we know fr’om near 
Konigsberg, from the brown-coal of the Ehon and Wetterau and of Gunzburg, but we 
have got rather numerous seeds, partly still in the position which they held within the 
fruits (cf. Plate LXIX. figs. 1 & 2). These seeds agree, in respect to their position, theu* 
forms, and the peculiar structm-e of the testa, so entirely -with those of the Continent, 
that no doubt can arise about the question whether they belong to the same plant or 
not. They are arranged in series, but in such a manner that they partly overlie each 
other; and in consequence of pressiu’e the shape has been here and there somewhat 
altered, resulting in more or less deep impressions. Figures 3-5 (magnified) show the 
principal forms which the seeds of Bovey display. At the apex they taper into a small 
point, at the base they are somewhat roimded ; the colour’ is a shining brownish black, 
fiuTOwed by vei’y dehcate strise formmg distinct sphals, the deeper strise alternating with 
the more dehcate (cf. especially the highly magnified piece of a seed, fig. 6). 
In order to illustrate this remarkable species, which has such a very wide range, I 
have represented in fig. 7 a fine fruit that was sent me by Director Albeecht of Konigs- 
berg out of the clays of Samland ; fig. 8 represents a similar fruit from Gunzburg, remark- 
able for its great dimensions. 
In the ‘ Flora’ [1. c.) I have described this species at frih length, and I have tried to 
show that it belongs to the genus Gardenia, while Ludwig refers it to Passiflora. It 
cannot belong to the latter genus, since Passiflora has fieshy fruits on long slender 
stalks, and seeds which are always distinguished by pecuhar little pits (“ semina impresso- 
scrobiculata ” is mentioned by Exdlichee as a characteristic feature of this family). Even 
the genus Vareca, to which Ludwig refers, has fleshy hexagonal fruits, which are only 
about half an inch long, and furnished at the base with a small round cup with six 
