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pyramidal; nacre bluish white and iridescent poste- 
riorly; cavity capacious; most so under the umbonial 
slope. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
A species distantly allied to U. iris, Lea, but dif- 
fering in its greater convexity and elevation, as well 
as in the peculiarity of its rays, which disappear on 
the anterior side; an impressed line is visible in some 
specimens, on the posterior submargin. I found 
several in the Black Warrior river, south of Blount’s 
Springs, Alabama. 
UNIO GREENII. 
Puate I[V.—F%g. 1. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Shell subovate, thick before, thinner behind; an- 
‘terior side not very short, rounded, beaks slightly 
prominent; umbonial slope straight, subangulated; 
epidermis wrinkled, olivaceous, rayed only on the 
posterior side; cardinal teeth thick; lateral teeth 
striated and minutely granulated; within bluish 
white, iridescent on the posterior margin; a short 
obtuse elevation passing obliquely from béneath the 
cardinal teeth; cavity moderately capacious. 
OBSERVATIONS... 
A species which cannot be confounded by an accu- 
rate observer with any other heretofore described; 


