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382. Berry, Edward W. Fossil plants from the late Cretaceous of Tennessee. Proc. 

 Nat. Acad. Sci. [U. S. A.] 6: 333-334. 1920.— The Gulf Coastal Plain presents a comparatively 

 complete paleobotanical record from the Cretaceous to the present. The two large gaps 

 have been the late Upper Cretaceous and the Miocene. In 1919, in western Tennessee, Dr. 

 Bruce Wade discovered abundant material in clay lenses of the Ripley formation — the latest 

 Cretaceous of the region. Remains of 124 species (86 new) have been identified. The species 

 are referred to 62 genera (30 extiijct), 38 families, and 25 orders; 5 ferns, 6 gymnosperms, 7 

 monocotyledons, and 105 dicotyledons are included. "A complete account .... will 

 be published by the U. S. Geological Survey." — Howard B. Frost. 



383. Berry, Edward W. Fossil plants. [Rev. of: Seward, A. C. Fossil plants. Vol. 

 IV. Cambridge Univ. Press: Cambridge, 1919.] Plant World 22: 341-342. 1919. "On the 

 whole it seems to the reviewer that Professor Seward has performed a difficult task about 

 as well as could be expected, and despite their obvious shortcomings, which have been freely 

 criticised, these four volumes are a mine of information for the student interested in the 

 floras of the past." — {Author's summary.) 



384. Berry, Edward W. New specific name. Torreya 20: 101. 1920. — Inga oligocaen- 

 ica Berry (Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. 103: 32. 1918.) from the Oligocene of the Canal Zone is 

 antedated by Inga oligocaenica Engelhardt (1898), from the Oligocene of Bohemia. The 

 name Inga culebrana is accordingly proposed.- — J. C. Nelson. 



385. Berry, E. W. The ancestors of the sequoias. Sci. Amer. Monthly 2:207-208. 

 1920. — A reprint of an article which appeared in a recent number of Natural History. [See 

 also Bot. Absts. 6, Entry 793.]—^. W. Berry. 



386. Berry, E. W. The teaching of paleobotany. Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer. 31:389-392. 

 1920. — Outlines the content of a universitj^ course in paleobotany. — E. W. Berry. 



387. Berry, E. W. The age of the Dakota flora. Amer. Jour. Sci. 50: 387-390. 1920.— 

 Discusses the age of the flora found in the Dakota sandstone of the western United States and 

 shows that it cannot be Lower Cretaceous in age. The thesis is maintained that the Dakota 

 sandstone is intimately associated with the Upper Cretaceous marine transgression of the 

 Benton and is probably Turonian in age. — E. W. Berry. 



388. Carpentier, A. Contribution a I'etude des fructifications du Culm de Mouzeil 

 (Loire-Inferieure). [Contribution to the study of the fructifications from the Culm of Mou- 

 zeil.] Rev. Gen. Bot. 32:337-350. 2 pi., 5 figs. 1920. — The basin of the Basse-Loire con- 

 sists of two SE-NW synclines, known respectively by the names of Ancenis and Teill6-Mou- 

 zeil. Fossil plants of this region were described by Brongniart, but the fructifications of 

 the Pteridospermae were made known chiefly by. Grand 'Eury and Bureau. The author has 

 studied further the imprints of fructifications found here. — On the whole the Culm flora is 

 less rich in genera and species than the Westphalian flora of the coal basin of Valenciennes. 

 Among the most common impressions are those of Sphenopteris Dubuissoni, S. elegans, 

 and S. dissectiim (Brongt.). The Neuropterideae are rare: the genus Neuropteris is repre- 

 sented only by a few fragments of A'', antecedens and N. Schlehani. The Lepidodendreae, 

 including Lepidodendron lycopodioides, Lepidophloios laricinus, and Ulodendron, are fairly 

 common. — Descriptions are given of the following seeds, with or without cupules: Lageno- 

 spermum tenuifolium Nathorst g., {E. Bureau sp.), associated with Neuropteris antecedens 

 Stur and a Sphenopteris ; L. crassum n. sp., associated with Sphenopteris Dubuissoni Brongt.; 

 L. inflatum n. sp., possibly representing the escaped seeds of the cupule known as L. cras- 

 sum; L. aff. nitidulum (Heer) Nathorst, associated with Sphenopteris dissectum and one other 

 species; L. sp.; Carpolithus L. (cf. Rhabdocarpus turbinatus) E. Bureau sp.; C. sp. Three 

 types of microsporangia are described: Telangium sp., associated with Sphenopteris Dubuis- 

 soni; Pterispermotheca n. gen.; Cf. Diplotheca (D. stellata Kidston). Two uncertain impres- 

 sions, one of them known as Guilielmites, are also mentioned. — L. W. Sharp. 



