Canada 
Geological Survey 
Victoria Memorial Museum 
BULLETIN No. I 
X . — A New Genus of Dicotyledonous Plant from the Tertiary 
of Kettle River , British Columbia. 
By W. J. Wilson. 
During the summer of 1911, Mr. Leopold Reinecke of the 
Geological Survey, brought in a small number of fossil plants 
from a lens-shaped mass of white tuff in a conglomerate on 
Curry creek on the West fork of Kettle river in the Beaverdell 
district, southern British Columbia. In this collection there are 
two dicotyledonous leaves which I have not been able to place 
satisfactorily in any described genus to which I have access. 
In the hope that more specimens will be obtained from this 
locality which will throw further light on the place these leaves 
occupy in the botanical scale, I will describe them provisionally 
under the generic name Lebephyllum, from Xej&js kettle, and 
tftvWov a leaf, Kettle river being the type locality. 
Lebephyllum gen. nov. 
Leaves rhombic-oval to rhombic-lanceolate; basal margin 
entire; apical margin crenate-dentate, cuneate at the base, three 
veined. Detailed characters under specific description. Type: 
L. reineckei. 
In general appearance these leaves resemble those of an herb- 
aceous plant, as suggested by Professor John Macoun, and in 
the general form, venation, and the peculiar dentate margins 
they approach nearest the living genera Pilea and Urtica in 
the Nettle family. They agree particularly \n the rounded 
teeth and the long point at the apex. In Pilea and Urtica the 
