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European Upper Cretaceous. The American forms are not varied 

 specifically but are wide ranging and common, extending from the 

 Atane beds of Greenland along the Atlantic coast to the Tuscaloosa 

 formation of western Alabama as well as in the Dakota sandstone 

 of the western interior. 



The recorded Eocene species of Myrsine number seven or eight 

 and include an Australian form, one in the early Eocene of Alum 

 Bay, three in the upper Eocene of France, and two in western xAlaska. 

 Myrsine is exceedingly varied and abundant during the Oligocene 

 throughout southern Europe, over thirty species having been de- 

 scribed, of which eleven occur in the basal Oligocene of southeast- 

 ern France ( Sannoisian). There are upwards of thirty Miocene 

 species throughout Europe, one in Colorado being the only known 

 American occurrence. Several species linger in the Pliocene of south- 

 ern Europe in France and Italy and one species is present in the Pli- 

 ocene of Brazil. 'In addition to the forms referred to Myrsine sev- 

 eral forms from the European Tertiary have been referred to the 

 form-genus Myrsinites. Ettingshausen recorded a species of Pleio- 

 merites from the Miocene of Bohemia; and the genus Maesa For- 

 skal, which has about 40 modern species in Asia, Africa, Australia 

 and Polynesia, is represented in the Oligocene of Transylvania and 

 Egypt and in the Miocene of Styria. 



The genus Ardisia Swartz (including Ardisiophyllum Geyler) 

 has furnished about a dozen fossil species, the oldest of which, a very 

 doubtfully determined form, comes from the Turonian of Bohemia. 

 There is an Eocene or Oligocene species in Chili, three Oligocene 

 species in Bohemia and one in Transylvania. There are four Mio- 

 cene species in France, Bohemia and Styria ; and Pliocene species in 

 Italy and Borneo. 



The genus Icacorea Aublet is the only member of the Myrsinacese 

 found in the Wilcox flora. The genus has numerous existing spe- 

 cies confined to South America. The fossil record is meager but 

 includes two or three species of the European Oligocene. The Wil- 

 cox species is thus considerably older than any European occurrence. 

 It represents a form which is very close to the modern Icacorea pan- 

 iculata Sudworth, a shrub or slender tree of the Florida keys, Baha- 



