FOSSIL PLANTS 
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This species is represented by several nearly perfect examples as 
well as by numerous fragments of greater or less size. The largest 
example (see pi. xxxii) is 15.5 cm. in length and 10 cm. in width. 
The widest point being in the middle of the blade. The smallest 
specimen (pi. xxvi, fig. 2) is about 12 cm. in length and 7.5 cm. in 
width. 
This species is certainly very closely allied to the preceding, and it 
is possible that only a single species is represented. This appears to 
differ, however, in being uniformly of much smaller size and in being 
wedge-shaped at base instead of distinctly heart-shaped. The mar¬ 
ginal teeth and the nervation are similar in both, except that midrib and 
secondaries are relatively lighter in P. alaskana. 
Family ERICACEA5 
Andromeda grayana Heer. 
Andromeda grayana Heer, Neue Deukschr. d. Algem. Schw. Gesell., vol. 
xxi, p. 7, pi. 1, figs. 7-9, 1865. 
Vaccinium alaskanum sp. nov. 
pi. xxv, fig. 1. 
Leaf coriaceous, obovate-oblong, abruptly narrowed at base, obtuse 
at apex; margin entire below, finely but obscurely serrate in the upper 
portion ; midrib strong below, much more slender above ; secondaries 
thin, about eight pairs, opposite below, alternate in the upper part of 
the blade, at an acute angle, much curving upward, craspedodrome, 
each joining the secondary next above; intermediate secondaries sev¬ 
eral ; nervilles numerous, thin, both percurrent and broken, approxi¬ 
mately at right angles to the midrib ; finer nervation producing minute 
areas. 
The single figured example is all that was contained in this collec¬ 
tion. It is a small leaf, oblong, slightly obovate, and 4.25 cm. long 
by 1.5 cm. in width. 
This leaf is apparently not closely allied to any previously described 
from Alaska. 
Phyllites saundersi sp. nov. 
pi. xxv, fig. 2; pi. xxxiii, fig. 2. 
The collection contains about a dozen fragments, two of which are 
here figured. I am uncertain as to the exact nature of these little ob¬ 
jects. At first sight certain of the detached specimens have the ap¬ 
pearance of being catkins of something like Salix or Populus , but, as 
