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modern Florideae and Codiaceae as well as with certain Eocene forms 

 [Ovulites). The final form described as Mastigographis ? ßaccidus 

 and its probable reference to the graptolites is pointed out. Berry. 



Seward, A. C, Notes on Fossil Plants fromthe Witte- 

 berg Series of Cape Colony. (Geol. Mag. VI. 545. p. 482— 485. 

 1 pl. 1909.) 



The Witteberg series are placed above the Cape series, and 

 below the plant bearing and glacial beds of the Lower Karoo. 

 They have afforded very few and imperfect fossil plants. The pre- 

 sent paper describes several specimens, rather better preserved 

 than those previously recorded, of Bothodendron irregidave Schwarz. 

 They include impressions and casts of small branches with crowded 

 scars, a few with acicular leaves, and larger branches with oval or 

 circular depressions on the decorticated snrface. Comparison is sug- 

 gested with Bothrodendvon kiltorkense from Bear Island. 



There is a note on Hastimima sp., a snpposed plant, in which 

 Prof. Seward suggests that the specimens are really part of a 

 Eurypterid. A note by Dr. Wood ward in the same number of the 

 magazine entirely confirms this Suggestion. M. C. Stopes. 



Sinnott, E. W., Paracedvoxylon, a new Araucarian Wood. 

 (Rhodora. XL p. 165— 173y£l. 80—81. S. 1909.) 



The author describes lignite from the supposed Cretaceous of 

 Scituater, Mass. which shows thin walled and mostly pitless 

 rays, tracheids with radial circular bordered pits and other structu- 

 res which are interpreted as somewhat modified traumatic resin- 

 canals, from which the conclusion is drawn that Pavacedvoxylon is 

 a primitive araucarian on the border line between this group and 

 their assumed ancestors, the Irypothetical primitive Abietineae. 



Berry. 



Stopes, M. C. and K. Fujii. Studies on the structure and 

 affinities of Cretaceous Plants. Abstract. (Proc. Roy. 

 Soc. Bot. LXXXI. p. 559-561. 1909.) 



The abstract announces the discovery of plantpetrifactions of 

 Cretaceous age in marine nodules from Japanese strata. The mode 

 of petrifaction is similar to that of the carboniferous nodules, and 

 preserves many fragments of a variety of plants. These ränge from 

 Fungi to Angiosperms, and the authors describe the following new 

 genera and species. Petrosphaeria japonica, a parasitic fungus; 

 Schisaeopteris Tansleii, a fern sorus; Fasciosteloptevis mesosoica, a 

 fern stem and petiole; fern rootlets; NipouophyUum cordaitiforme, 

 a gymnospermic leaf; Yesonia vulgaris, axes and leaves of a new 

 gymnosperm; Yesostrobus Oliveri, a new gymnospermic cone spe- 

 cies ol Araucarioxylon and Cedroxylon, Cunningharniostrobus ytcba- 

 viensis, a cone; Cryptomeriopsis, antiqua, a leafy axis; Saururopsis 

 niponensis, a new angiospermic stem; Jugloxylon, PopulocauUs, 

 Fagoxylon and Sabiocaulis, new angiospermic stems; and Cretova- 

 rium japoiiicum, the flower of what appears to be a Monocotyledon. 

 It is remarkable that in this Cretaceous flora, unlike those 

 usualty represented by leaf impressions only, the proportion between 

 the numbers of angiospermic and gymnospermic forms is fairly 

 evenly balanced. M. C. Stopes. 



