CASSIA ? sp. Newb.
CASSIA? sp., Newb., Later Extinct Floras, p. 113, Pl.
XLVI, fig. 10, 1898.
The type of this form is before me and it requires
but a glance to see that the drawing does not correspond accurately with
the specimen. Judging from the drawing alone it would seem to represent
a small leguminous pod with faint depressions corresponding to the
places occupied by the seeds. The outer surface is represented as
uniform and unmarked. The specimen itself does not show any evidence of
the presence of seeds, and the outer surface is strongly marked with
close parallel lines which are oblique to the long direction and which
completely cross it from side to side. I do not understand this
structure, and while it may represent a small pod it is hardly probable
that it is a Cassia.
Locality.Bridge Creek, Grant County,
Oregon. Collected by Rev. Thomas Condon (U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 7093).