<()38 Floristik u. Systematik der Phanerogamen. — Palaeontologie. 



VlALON [G.j, Herborisationsdans les Alpes- maritim es 

 [siiite]. (Bull. Acad. intern. Ge'ogr. botan. XH. 1903. 

 p. 506—516.) 



(Voy, Botan. Centralbl. XCll. p. 589.) Recit d'une herborisation 

 de Monaco au Mont Agel qui se dresse ä 1149 m au dessus de la 

 vilie. Des les premieres pentes, quelques plantes revelent une partie 

 chaude du domaine mediterraneen francais, comme Anemone stellata, 

 Lavatera cretica et maritima, Myrtiis communis, Galiiun purpureum, 

 Campannla macrorrhiza , Orobanchc spcciosa , Globularia Alypum, 

 Euphorbia spinosa et clendroides, Tlielygonum Cynocrambc, Allium 

 neapolitanum. 



Des 800 m. d'altit., la Vegetation change de physionomie, gräce au 

 nielange d'un grand nombre d'especes des basses montagnes ou meme 

 des zones elevees. Eiles deviennent de plus en plus noinbreuses; des 

 especes alpines apparaissent, comme Bellidiastrum Michelii et Gentiana 

 acaulis avec l'interessant Ostrya carpinifolla. 



Pres du sommet du Mont Baudon, tout proche du premier, les 

 rochers offrent au botaniste Alyssnm halimifolium, Sax'fraga lingulata 

 et lantoscana. Sur le versant nord de cette montagne haute de 

 1263 m.: Ranunculus Canuti Cosson, Cytisus Ardoini, Phyteuma orhi- 

 culare, Micromeria piperella, Lamium longiflorum, Erythroniutn dens canis 

 avec quelques especes alpines: Primula mnrginata, Saxifraga cuneifolia, 

 Erinns alpinus, Gentiana acaulis etc. C. Flahault. 



Wentworth, L. A., Two plants new to the flora of Lynn, 



Massachusetts. {Rhodora. V. Oct. 1903. p. 256— 257.) 



Geranium pratense and Centaurea solstitialis are noted for the 

 locaüty named, and Potentilla tridentata is recorded for Hamilton. 



Trefease. 



Berrv, Edward W„ The American species referredto 

 Thinnfeldia. (Bull. Torr. Bot. Club. Vol. XXX. 1903. 



p. 438.) 



The history of Thinnfeldia is reviewed and the necessity for revision 

 is pointed out this being the object of the present paper. Confining 

 his attention to American species only^ the author points out that 

 those of the M i d d 1 e and Upper Cretaceous bear a strong resemblance 

 to existing species of Phyllocladus, and they are regarded as forming a 

 link between the Podocarpaceae and the Taxaceae. For theni the new 

 genus Protophyllocladus is created, and to this three species are 

 assigned. Thinnfeldia proper is held to be allied to the ferns, and it 

 includes six species chiefiy characteristic of the Cretaceous, though one 

 occurs in the Triassic. D. P. Penhallow. 



Berrv, Edward W., The Flora of the Matawan For- 

 mation jCrosswick's Clays]. (Bull. N. Y. Bot. Card. 

 Vol. III. No. 9. 1903. p. 45—103. [111.]) 



The Matawan formation presents a variable thickness of from 

 15 — 200 feet. The contained flora is a rieh one, embracing such types as 

 Dammara, Eucalyptus, Araucarites, Sterculia, Aralia, Myrsine, Ficus etc., 

 but it is remarkable for the absence of ferns which form so prominent 

 a feature of the Dakota and Raritan Croups. In all, sixty-seven 

 species are described, of which fourteen are new. The Matawan flora 

 presents a very close correspondence with that of the Raritan for- 

 mation and the Cenomanian of Europe. D. P. Penhallow. 



