Identifier: reportoftheexplor1845eng (find matches)
Title: Report of the exploring expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the year 1842, and to Oregon and north California in the years 1843-44
Year: 1845 (1840s)
Authors: Fremont, John Charles 1813-1890 United States Army. Corps of Engineers
Subjects: United States, West -- Description and travel United States Exploring expeditions
Publisher: Washington: Gales and Seaton, 1845
Contributing Library: Church History Library, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Digitizing Sponsor: Corporation of the Presiding Bishop, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

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HA iy-E Weber ■ - 305 ( 174 ) Yorkshire, p. 147, pi. 8, figs. 6 and 7; Sphen. Williamsoni, Brong. Hist.Veg. Foss., i, p. 177, t. 49, figs. 6, 7, and S. The fossil under consideration,however, is quite a different species. In the figure 1 a, the branches andpinnules are more lax; figure 1 d is a magnified portion. In its general aspect, this fossil resembles the genus Pachypteris, towhich I had been inclined to refer it, but for the digitate character of thepinnules manifested by some specimens. 4. SPHENOPTERIS (?) TKIFOLIATA, PI. 2, figS. 2, 2 tt. (No. 86 Oi Collection.) Description.—Frond bipinnate ; pinna? trifoliate ; pinnules elliptic, nar-rowing at the base; rachis slender, flexuous; fructification terminal,raceme-like, from the pinnules gradually becoming single and fructiferous. Fig. 2 a—part of the fructiferous portion enlarged, showing the capsuies,apparently immersed in the thickened pinnule. This is a most beautifuland graceful species, approaching in some respects to

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