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This is distinctly not the same as Comptonia cuspidata described by 
Lesquereux 1 from the Upper Eocene of Alaska, and with which it was 
confused by Dawson. Lesquereux's Alaska material has the lobes much 
wider, more rounded laterally, more ascending and cuspidate pointed. 
In Dawson’s and my material, to which I am giving a new specific name, 
the lobes are triangular in outline, about as wide as long, bluntly pointed, 
nearly straight sided, with the intervening sinuses nearly triangular instead 
of very narrow and acute. 
This new species is, on the other hand, extremely close to Comptonia 
dryandroides Unger 2 , a rather widespread and not uncommon type of 
the Eurasian Oligocene and Miocene. Tne British Columbia form may 
be identical with this later European species, but I have for the present 
considered it to stand in an ancestral relationship to the latter. The 
present material comes from Joseph creek. 
Order, Juglandales 
Family, juglandaceab 
Hicoria dawsoni Berry n. sp. 
Plate XYI, figure 3 
Leaflets of relatively small size, obovate and inequilateral in general 
outline, with a shortly pointed apex, and cuneate base, short petiolulate 
or sessile. Margins finely dentate, except near the base, where they are 
entire. Length about 9 cm., maximum width, above the middle, about 
4 cm. The lamina, about one-third wider on one side than on the other. 
Midrib stout, prominent. Secondaries about 12 opposite to alternate, 
regularly spaced, sub-parallel, camptodrome pairs. 
This is a well-marked species, which I have named in honour of Sir 
William Dawson. The only previously known fossil species which it 
resembles is Hicoria antiquorum (Newberry) Knowlton, a larger and 
earlier Eocene form, which has been recorded from the supposed Paskapoo 
formation. 
The present material comes from Joseph creek. 
Hicoria stanleyanum (Dawson) Berry 
Dryophyllum stanleyanum Dawson, Trans. Roy. Soc., Can., 2nd ser., vol. 1, 
sec. 4, p. 147, fig. 13, 1895. 
This form was found to be common but poorly preserved in the 
collections from the Puget group described by Dawson from Vancouver. 
The features were much obscured and its author suggested doubt as 
to the advisability of his reference to the genus Dryophyllum. Some- 
what better material of this species is present in the collection from Joseph 
creek, and this shows that it is a Hicoria and not a Dryophyllum. The 
base is often less cuneate than Dawson’s figures would indicate, the second- 
aries are ultimately camptodrome, and the margin in many cases has 
distinctly dentate teeth, especially in the apical region. 
i Lesquereux, L. , U.S. Nat. Mus. Proc., vol. 5, p. 445, PI. 6, figs. 10-12, 1883. 
* Unger, F., Foss. FI. v. Sotzka, p. 31, PI. 6, fig. 1, 1850. 
