GINKGO sp.
Pl. I, fig. 5.
The collection contains a fragment of what appears to
be a leaf of Ginkgo, but it is too much broken to make out any of the
essential characters. The most that can be said is that it must have
been a large leaf as compared with the living species.
Locality.Mascall beds, Van Horn's ranch,
about 12 miles west of Mount Vernon, Grant County, Oregon. Collected by
John C. Merriam, July, 1901 (U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 8536).