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Pkragmites alaskana Heer 
Phragmites alaskana Heer, FI. Foss. Arct., Bd. 2, abt. 2, p. 24, PI. 1, fig. 12, 
1869. 
Phragmites sp., Newberry, U.S. Geol. Surv., Mon. 35, p. 27, PI. 22, figs. 
5, 5 a, 1898. 
The type of this quandum species came from the Kenai beds of Alaska 
and similar remains are described from the Fort Union of Dakota. Identical 
forms are present in the collections from Newhykulston and Joseph creeks, 
and Kitsilano. 
Musophyllum complicatum Lesquereux 
Musophyllum complicatum Lesquereux, Tert. FI., p. 96, PI. 15, figs. 1-6, 
1878; Penhallow, Rept. Tert. PI. Brit. Col., p. 63, 1908. 
I seriously question the reference of these forms to the genus Muso- 
phyllum, but whatever their botanical nature there can be no question 
that the remains in the collection from Newhykulston creek are identical 
with the specimens so named by Lesquereux from the Green River Eocene, 
in fact this author's figure 1 would answer admirably as an illustration 
for the British Columbia specimen. It is not the same as the striated, 
broad leaves found in the Puget group at Burrard inlet, but may be 
the same as the occurrence at Tulameen river recorded by Penhallow 
as representing this species. 
Canna (? ) dawsoni Berry n. sp. 
In his account of the plants from Burrard inlet, Sir William Dawson, 
in discussing the palm-like remains that he referred to Manicaria sp., 
speaks of fragments of “broad striate leaves which may belong to this or 
allied endogenous forms”. 1 Similar remains are contained in the collection 
from Burrard inlet. They are much broken and are of a type that has 
been described as Musophyllum, Geonomites, Zingiberites, Canna, etc. 
These leaves from Burrard inlet were entire and of large size, ovate or 
lanceolate in general form, with a relatively slender midrib from which 
there diverged, at rather acute angles, innumerable closely spaced and 
parallel simple lateral veins. There are about three of these to a millimetre, 
and no differentiation in size among any of them can be observed. They 
have this additional distinctive feature, perhaps due to a parasitic fungus; 
at intervals a group of laterals will be enlarged, forming a circular or 
elliptical, or transversely lanceolate “spot” in marked contrast with the 
balance of the leaf surface. The veins in these scattered modified areas 
appear at least twice the ordinary size, and the number of adjacent veins 
affected varies from 1 to 30. In the wider patches the length of vein 
affected is about 1 • 5 mm. ; where single veins are enlarged this enlargement 
may extend for a distance of 6 mm. 
I have ventured to give this form a name in honour of Sir William 
Dawson, and I have referred it tentatively to the genus Canna, as it is 
more like certain species of that genus than any other known to me. It 
is not a Musophyllum, whatever that may be botanically; neither is it 
1 Dawson, J. W., Trans. Roy. Soc., Can., 2nd ser„ vol. 1, sec. 4, p. 143, 1895. 
