Box 25, Folder 5: Paleontology Draft I 1853

American PALAEONTOLOGY:

containing descriptions of the fossil organic remains heretofore discovered in North America, with their geological position + localities; illustrated by figures of one or more species of each genus

By I ALapham

1853

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Plants

Genus Buthotrephis* Hall- Paloeon= tology of N.Y. Vol 1 p 8 (1847

Stems subcylindric, compressed, branched; branches numerous, diverging, leaflike, structure vesicular? - Habit of some Species like Potamogeton.

*Greek- buthotrephis, produced growing in the depths of the sea.

[Sketch]

Buthotrephis succulens

Buthotrephis succulens, Hall Pal. N. York Vol. 1, p. 62, p. 22 fig. 2 Lithodendron dichotomum, Euton. Geol. TextBook.

Fossil composed of thick succulent stems; stems branching; branches divergent, bifurcating; structure apparently cellulous, indistinct.

W. of Stems 0.10 to 0.25