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The great abundance of the upright stcms in some of the sand- 

 stone beds is in tav^our of the in situ hypothcsis; Prot'. Kendall 

 discovered upright stems associated with horizontally running- rhi- 

 zomes, a good specimen of which is figured by Halle. A second 

 specimcn shows rhizomes coming off at dilTerent levels from the 

 upright steni as if it were trying to overcome overwhelming sand. 

 The specimens are taken by the author [with good reason] to indi- 

 caie the fact that the plants were growing in situ in lagoons which 

 were being gradualh' tilled up by accumulations of sand. 



M. C. Stopes. 



Holden, R., Cretaceous Pitxoxvla from Cliffwood, New 

 Jersey. (Proc. Am. Acad. Arts'and Sei. XLVIII. p. 609— 623. 

 pl. 1—4. 1913.) 



Three types of Pityoxylon are described as new from the Cre- 

 taceous (Magothy formation) of Cliffwood Beach, N.J. These are 

 na med Pbnis protoscleropitys, Pityoxylon foliosiim and P.anomahim. 

 The first has piited rays, bars of Sanio, and is regarded as pro- 

 bably the earliest form" with all the characters of a modern hard 

 pine, retaining ancestral features such as the association of primarj»- 

 and fascicular leaves. 



The second shows mixed characters, and is regarded as possibly 

 the wood of Prepinus. The third, of undetermined afifinities, has 

 all the leaves on short shoots. Berry. 



HoUiek, A., Additions to the Paleobotany of the Creta- 

 ceous Formation on Long Island. N^. 3. (Bull. N. Y. Bot. 

 Card. Vm. p. 154—170. pl. 162-170. 1912.) 



This contribution is a continuation of the author's previous stu- 

 dies of the Upper Cretaceous floras in the vicinity of New York. 

 Several additions are recorded and figured from Long Island 

 and the following species or varieties are described as new. Ficus 

 Kraiisiana siibsimüis, Embothriopsis pvesagita, Laurophyllum ocote- 

 aeoides, Cassia insiilaris, Eucalyptus Geinitsi propinqua, Myrtophyl- 

 lum sapindoides, Ligustrum subtile. These are from two localities — 

 the well known outcrop at Glea Cove, and ferruginous concretions 

 in the Pleistocene gravels at Roslyn. Berry. 



Kendall, P. F., Notes on the Stratigraphical Position of 

 Beds with Equisetum. (Geol. Mag. X. p. 7—9. 1913.) 

 Describes the section at the Peak Alum Works where numerous 

 flattened rhizomes of Equisetum cohimnaris are found in a sandy, 

 fissile shale below a sandstone containing many upright stems of 

 Equisetum [see paper by Halle]. M. C. Stopes. 



Kidstcn, R. and D. T. Gwynne-Va\ighan, On the Carboni- 

 ferous Flora ofBerwickshire. Part I. Stenomyelon Tuedia- 

 num. (Trans. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh. XLVIII. 2. p. 263—271. pl. 1-4. 

 1912.) 



The Calciferous Sandstone series has yielded further specimens 

 of this cycadofilician plant which was first known from a specimen 

 in Dr. Peach's Collection. The present material consists of stems in 



