PROFESSOR HEER ON THE FOSSIL FLORA OF NORTH GREENLAND. 
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Several of these carpels show the fissure, precisely as in M. glauca (fig. 1). The cone 
(fig. 2) is 115 millims. long and 32 millims. broad, but the base and apex are wanting. 
Fig. 3 represents a cone and a twig, and fig. 3 5a very large oval bud, like that of 
Magnolia. These fruits confirm the identification of the leaves. The cones indeed are 
from Ujararsusuk, but leaves occur at Kudliset, a very near locality, and a single carpel 
was found at Atanekerdluk ; it is therefore very probable that both fruit and leaves 
belong to the same species. The carpels are very like those of Magnolia glauca, but 
the cone is as large as that of MCgrandiflora, though much narrower ; the leaves also 
are most like those of M. grandiflora. 
M c Clintockia. 
XXVII. Menispeemaceae 1 
The collection contains many leaves of this genus, and some in very fine preservation, 
but its systematic position still remains very doubtful. In the ‘ Flora Arctica’ (p. 114) 
I described them as possibly belonging to Proteacese, hut the long and slender petiole 
does not agree with this family ; they more resemble some Menispermaceae, as Cocculus 
laurifolius ; which has three primary nerves reaching to the apex, and a long slender 
petiole terminating abruptly in the base of the leaf, as in McClintockia. But the reti- 
culation of the areas and the denticulation of the margin are very different. 
58. M c Clintockia Lyallii, Tlr., Plate LII. figs. 1-3. Hr. FI. Arct. p. 115, pis. xv. figs. 
1 a, 2 ; xvi. 7 a, b ; xvii. 2 a, b ; xlvii. 1 3 ; xlviii. 8. 
Plate LII. figs. 1 & 2 are very large leaves with five nerves, all of the same thickness. 
The reticulation of the areas is very fine, and agrees perfectly with that of the leaves 
which I have described in the ‘ Flora Arctica.’ The margin of the upper portion of fig. 1 
presents large obtuse teeth. The petiole is slender (fig. 3), and not continuous with the 
lamina of the leaf. Beside the leaf (fig. 2 a) are some remains of fruit, which perhaps 
belong to this species. Better preserved is another fruit, Carpolithes cocculoides (fig. 9. 
magn. 9 5), which belongs, I believe, to Menispermaceee, and which may perhaps be 
combined with M c Clintockia. If this is the case the fruit would confirm the occurrence 
of Menispermaceous plants in North Greenland. 
59. MCintockia dentata, Hr., Plate LII. figs. 4-7. Hr. FI. Arct. p. 115, pi. xv. fig. 34. 
Hab. Atenekerdluk. 
I formerly knew only the upper portion of these leaves ; but Mr. Whtmpee’s collection 
contains leaves with the base and petiole (Plate LII. fig. 7), which is long and slender, 
and terminates abruptly in the base of the leaf, as in the former species. The leaf has 
seven primary nerves, but only three reach the apex. The upper portion presents large, 
obtuse (fig. 4), or acuminate (figs. 5, 6) teeth. In fig. 4 the right side of the leaf is 
broader than the left, and the sides are unequal at the base ; but in fig. 6, 7 both sides 
are equal. 
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