^l Stiidji of fhe Bclridi'rc licds. — CfOf/iii. 3015 
In one of the fine, white, tloury-appearing exposures of the 
('heyenne sandstone, east of the Stokes hill*, and nearh' on the 
Barber-C'Omanehe county line, the writer once excavated a 
fossil tree-trunk, badly i)reserved, but showing some of -the 
knots and broken-otf branches. It was forty-five feet long, 
with stumj) ami tO]) missing, and apparently signified a tree 
of at least twice that hight. Its excurrent habit indicated 
that it belonged to one of the conifers or their allies, biit 
its microscopic structure was not examined. 
Fossil wood is common at certain localities in this sand- 
stone. 
The writer obtained the first foliage (^Gijiptosfrohiis (jrncil- 
limuH?) ill silii in the Cheyenne sandstone in the fall of 1893, 
not more than half a mile from the Belvidere railway 
station; but although he had then known for several years 
of the discovery of a so-called leaf-bed in either the Carbo- 
pyrite or the Wafer-shale zone of the Belvidere beds by coal 
prospectors, he postponed looking up the locality of the 
supposed dicotyledons. The announcement of Prof. Hill's 
discovery has therefore come to the writer with a confirma- 
tory as well as scientific interest. 
The Cheyenne sandstone has not been positively identified 
west of Comanche county, but a remnant of gra3nsh-white 
and ferruginous sandstone that should i)erhaps be referred to 
it, outcrops in the western edge of Little Basin in the western 
part of Clark county, beneath black lower Cretaceous shale. 
In his notice of the discovery of a dicotyledonous flora in 
the Cheyenne sandstone, in the June number of the American 
Journal of Science (page 4-73), Prof. Hill attributes to the 
writer the opinion that the Cheyenne is the equivalent of the 
* This pi'ominent elevation, so conspicvious from points far to the 
north, east, south and some westerly directions, and which terminates 
H spur of the divide between Medicine Lod^e river and Mule creek, 
separating branches of North Elk creek from Gant's canon and 
Walker's draw, has no other name than " the Black hill," a designa- 
tion also applied to the hill at Hell's Half Acre, to the hill south of 
Avilla, etc. But in conversation the writi'r has found the hill easily 
recognized by jjeople of the surrounding region when referred to under 
the name of the former nearest resident, a Mr. Stokes, who lived near 
the eastern foot of it for several years. The name Sfo/iCs hill is there- 
fore proposed for it. It is in the southeastern corner of Kiowa county, 
barely north of the Comanche county line, and al)out half a mile west 
of the Barber county line. The natural coral is near the northeastern 
base of it. 
