. Catalogue of casts of fossils, from the principal museums of Europe and America, with short descriptions and illustrations. Fossils. MISCELLANEOUS. No. 1204. Cycadoidea megalophylla, Buckl. (Syn. Mantdlia nidiformis. Brongu.) This short, spheroidal trunk probably- belonged to a Cycad,—a tropical plant related to the Conifers in structure and fructification, but totally different in habit. It supported a tuft of large, pin- nated, palm-like leaves ; and the sur- face is covered with rhomboidal scars formed by the attachment of the leaf- stalks. Its shape has caused it to be named " Crow'
. Catalogue of casts of fossils, from the principal museums of Europe and America, with short descriptions and illustrations. Fossils. MISCELLANEOUS. No. 1204. Cycadoidea megalophylla, Buckl. (Syn. Mantdlia nidiformis. Brongu.) This short, spheroidal trunk probably- belonged to a Cycad,—a tropical plant related to the Conifers in structure and fructification, but totally different in habit. It supported a tuft of large, pin- nated, palm-like leaves ; and the sur- face is covered with rhomboidal scars formed by the attachment of the leaf- stalks. Its shape has caused it to be named " Crow's Nest" by the quarrymen. Neither leaves nor fruit have been found. From the Purbeck beds (Wealden), Isle of Portland, England, and now in the Ward Museum, University of Rochester. Size, 12 x 12. Price, $ No. 1205, Cycadoides megalophylla, Buckl. A more compressed form of the preceding. The original is in the private Geological Cabinet of Mr. Ward, Rochester. Size, 15 x 14. Price, $ No. 1206 Dammarites Sternb. A Conifer from the Inferior Oolite, Burton, Somerset, England. Size, 6x6. Price, $ No. 1207. Nipadites Burtini, Brong. This fossil palm-nut is so called from its resemblance to the fruit of the ex- isting Nipa of Bengal and the East Indies. The Nipa is allied to the cocoa-nut tribe on the one side, and on the other to the screw-pine. It is a low-growing plant, luxuriating in marshy tracts at the mouths of great rivers. From the Eocene clay, Schserbeck, Belgium, and now in the Ward Museum, University of Rochester. Size, 8x7. Price, $ Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Ward, Henry A. (Henry Augustus), 1834-1906. Rochester, N. Y. , Benton & Andrews, printers
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