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from the soft, white clay of the Eocene of Mississippi, and represent 
specimens apparently hardly half the size of the large ones usually 
referred to it. Fragments supposed by Lesqnereux to belong to this 
species have been found on Vancouver Island, but this identification 
is not at all satisfactory, and it is more than likely that they belong to 
another species. More complete material is necessary before the exact 
status of the Vancouver specimens can be made out. 
This species is also reported from Point of Eocks, Wyoming, and the 
fine large specimen that is the original of Lesquereux's figure in the 
Tertiary Flora (PL XII, fig. 1) is in the collection of the United States 
National Museum (No. 108). During the season of 1890, Mr. T. W. 
Stanton and I fortunately secured a second example from the same 
locality. It was found at the base of the cliff, in the vicinity of coal 
mines northeast of the station, and is hardly to be distinguished from 
the specimen figured by Lesquereux. It is even larger than Lesque- 
reux's specimen, yet hardly adds to our knowledge, as it simply 
exhibits a little more of the blade of the leaf. 
The other figured type is said to be from the "hard sandstone between 
coal banks " at Golden, Colorado, and the National Museum fortunately 
contains this type (No. 109), which is the original of PL XII, fig. 2, in 
the Tertiary Flora. This specimen of a large petiole is, as the matrix 
clearly shows, not from the sandstone but from the andesitic material, 
and must have come from South Table Mountain in the Denver forma- 
tion. It is the one specimen on which the presence of this species in 
the Denver depends, for no leaves have been found there that could be 
referred to that formation. That the specimen under discussion is the 
petiole of a palm is clear, but beyond that it is impossible to go. It 
might as well belong to any of the other large palms as to Sabalites 
Grayanus, and as a factor in the distribution of this species it must 
be dismissed. 
Specimens have been found, however, in the hard white sandstone 
near Golden. The recent collection obtained by Rev. Arthur Lakes 
from Hoyt's coal mine, 1 mile south of Golden, contains several speci- 
mens which I have referred to this species with little hesitation. Among 
the material collected by Professor Ward in 1881 is a fine large leaf 
(fig. 5) that seems to belong here. It was collected one fourth of a 
mile west of Golden, in the characteristic white sandstone. 
From this it appears that Sabalites Grayanus has never, in the Colo- 
rado region, been found in other than true Laramie strata. It may be 
distinguished by its large size, its broad, thick rachis, which is taper- 
pointed and long acuminate, and by its very numerous rays. The 
intermediate veinlets are from 1 to 4 or even 10 in number. 
Habitat: Point of Rocks, Wyoming. Golden, Colorado (white sand- 
stone). Hoyt's coal mine, near Golden, Colorado. Mississippi (Eocene?). 
Vancouver Island. Golden, Colorado (Denver beds?). Pleasant Park, 
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