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KN0WLT0N, F. H., Report on Fossil Wood from the Ne- 

 wark formation of South Britain, Connecticut. 

 (21 st Annaul Report of the U. S. Geological Survey. Part III. 

 1899—1900. p. 160—161.) 1902. 



Araucarioxylon vlrginianum Kn.. originally described from 

 the Triassic of Virginia and later from the Triassic of North 

 Carolina, has been identified as occurring in the same formation 

 in Connecticut. D. B. Penhallow. 



KNOWLTON, F. H., Description of a new fossil species of 

 Chara. (Torreya. Vol. II. May 1902. p. 71—72.) 



The Pleistocene deposits of East Las Vegas, New-Mexico, 

 have been reported by Prof. T. D. A. Cock ereil to contain 

 great numbers of Chara fruits. An examination of these fruits 

 by Prof. Knowlton, proves them to be wholly tinlike any 

 fossil species previously known in the United States, and he 

 therefore describes them under the name of Chara Springerae 

 in honor of Miss Ada Springer, a student of Prof. Cocke- 

 rell's. The fruits are very fragile and difficult to remove from 

 their matrix, in consequence of which exact measurements were 

 impossible, but the approximate dimensions are 65 — 70 mm X 

 40 mm. The species is distinguished by its narrowly elliptical 

 form, by which it is at once separated from C. compressa Kn., 

 while it is separated from C. Stantoni Kn. by its size, shape 

 and the character an direction of the spirals. 



D. P. Penhallow. 



Hollick, Arthur, Geological and Bot anical Notes: Cape 

 Cod and Chappaquidick Island,' Mass. (Bulletin 

 N. Y. Botanical Garden. Vol. II. April 1902. p. 401—405. 

 plate 41.) 



Chappaquidick Island — properly a portion of Martha's 

 Vineyard — represents the most easterly position at which 

 Cretaceous plants have been found, and the present collection 

 is of interest in that connection, though very meagre. The 

 specimens are also unique in their geological relations, inas- 

 much as they occur in re-assorted drift material at some dis- 

 tance south of the terminal moraine, and they must therefore 

 have been subjected to erosion and subsequent transportation 

 through the action of ice and water. Eleven species are recog- 

 nized — none new — reprensentative of the genera Podoza- 

 mites, Dammara, Cunninghamites, Juniperus, Thinnfeldia, 

 Sclerophyllina, Salix, Magnolia, Myrsine and Tricalycites. 



While the majority ot these plants have been recognized 

 in the Amboy Clays of New Jersey, the Potomac Formation of 

 Virginia and the Cretaceous of Staten and Long Islands, only 

 two appear to have been previously recorded from Martha's 

 Vineyard. D. P. Penhallow. 



