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GYMNOSPERMS. 
CORDAITALES. 
CORDAITACE A. 
Cordaites UNGER. 
‘Cordaites sp. Pl. LXII, figs. 5, 6. 
The genus Cordaites is represented by a species having long, 
slender leaves, 7 to 11 mm. broad at the half-clasping base, 
from which they gradually widen to 114 to 2 cm. or more. 
The striz are fine, broken, strong and weak alternating. 
Formation and locality: Wellington shales, Banner City, 
Dickinson county, and the Wreford limestone, six miles west 
of Reece. 
‘Cordaianthus ? sexpartitus sp. nov. Pl. LXII, figs. 11-13. 
This small fossil, occurring abundantly, but always de- 
tached, consists of about six leaflets, 5 or 6 mm. long, all of 
equal length and attached at the same level, free to the base, 
traversed from base to apex by thin strise. In having its 
scales attached at a common level this fossil differs from 
typical specimens of Cordaianthus, the male flowers of which 
are arranged in a small imbricated cone subtended by a bract. 
The plant described by Lesquereux (Coal Flora, p. 537, pl. 76, 
figs. 4 and 4a) as Cordaianthus simplex appears from the figure 
to have the scales united at a common level as in the plant 
from the Permian. The reference of this species to Cordaian- 
thus is doubtful. 
Formation and locality: Wellington shales, Banner City, 
Dickinson county. 
‘Carpolithes sp. Pl. LXII, fig. 10. 
The small seeds referred to this genus occur in considerable 
abundance and in association with the fossil described as 
Cordaianthus (?) sexpartitus. They are of a flatish, oblong 
shape, being about twice as broad as thick. The surface ap- 
pears to have been covered by a very thin coating and is finely 
Striated. 
Formation and locality: Wellington shales, Banner City, 
Dickinson county, and the Wreford limestone, six miles west 
of Reece. } 
