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leaf fragments have beeu found in the clays, occurring precisely as 

 they may be found in the clan's of New Jersey. On the opposite 

 side, and along the shore of the Sound vari-colored clays are 

 to be seen outcropping on the shore and at the base of the 

 bluff. At a point about midway between the mouth of the cove 

 and Glen Cove landing is a stratum containing lignite, pyrite, 

 and a quantity of red ferruginous shale, in which latter the 

 leaf impressions are well preserved. This stratum is uncovered 

 at low tide, and may be traced into the adjoining bluff. The 

 red shale may be here seen in place and be readily obtained . 

 The tides constantly wear away the clay, exposing the shale, 

 and this is torn out by the waves and scattered along the 

 beach. The first specimens were found in this manner, merely 

 as loose fragments on the beach, and it was not until about a 

 year ago that they were traced to their original situation in the 

 clay outcrop. 



Following is the list of cretaceous species thus far identified : 



Magnolia Capellini, Heer. 

 PI. VI. f. 6. 



This specimen is referred to the species described and 

 figured by Prof. Heer in Phyllites Cretacees du Nebraska, T. 

 III. f. 5, (i, and Flor. Foss. Arct. III. T. XXXIIl. f. 1-4. In the 

 original description of the Nebraska leaf, the base of the leaf is 

 described and figured as obtuse, which characteristic does not 

 seem to be insisted upon in the specimens subsequently identi- 

 fied by the author with the same species from the L. Atane 

 beds of Greenland. With the latter, our specimen is plainly 

 identical. 



Locality : Glen Cove, L. I. 



Magnolia speciosa, Heer. 

 PI. VII. f. 4. 



In the Kreide-FIora von Moletein, on PI. VI., VII. and IX.' 

 Prof. Heer figures under this name certain species which so 

 closely resemble the one here figured, that if we are to retain it 

 in the genus Magnolia no separation would seem advisable. I 

 have thought that its affinities might be with Lauras, (See L. 

 protecefolia, Lesq. Cret. and Tert. Flor. VIII. 52, 53, Pi. III. f. 9, 

 10 and XVI. f. 6), or with certain forms described under Ficus^ 

 [F. Krausiana, Heer, Kreide-Flora von Moletein, 15, PL V. f. 

 3-6), but its general appearance and associations seem to be 



