Geological Survey Bulletin 204 Fossil Flora of the John Day Basin, Oregon

Family SCHIZÆACEÆ.

LYGODIUM KAULFUSII Heer.

LYGODIUM KAULFUSII Heer. Newberry, Later Extinct Floras, p. 1, Pl. LXII, figs. 1—4, 1898.

Lygodium neuropteroides Lesq., Tert. Fl., p. 61, Pl. V, figs. 4—7; Pl. VI, fig. 1, 1878; Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Vol. XI, p. 24, 1888.

As it now seems pretty generally agreed that Lesquereux's Lygodium neuropteroides is the same as L. Kaulfusii of Heer, all the Oregon material has been so referred.

The material from Cherry Creek collected by Major Bendire embraces some forty more or less perfect examples.a The expedition of the University of California of 1900 obtained four examples of this species at Cherry Creek in a matrix corresponding to that first mentioned above, and a number of additional specimens were obtained by Dr. Merriam and myself at the same place in 1901.

Locality.—Cherry Creek, Crook County, Oregon. Collected by Maj. Charles E. Bendire (U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 2505), by Merriam's party in 1900 (Mus. Univ. Cal., Nos. 176, 177, 183, 224), and by Knowlton and Merriam in 1901 (U. S. Nat. Mus., Nos. 9059—9066).

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a As already pointed out (ante p. 13) the material in the United States National Museum under this number appears to consist of two very distinct lots. Only those known to have come from Cherry creek are hare referred to.

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