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Geinitzia FORMOSA Hccr. 



Geinitzia forniosa Heer, Kreidefl. Quedlinburg (Neue 

 Denkschr. Schvveiz. Ges. 24:) 6. fl. i . /. g; pi. 2. 

 1871. Newb. Fl. Amboy Clays, 51.//. 9. /. 9. 1896. 

 (Foliage.) Hollick, Trans. N. Y. Acad. Sci. 16: 129. 

 pi. 12. f. /, 2. 1897. (Cones.) 

 Foliage has somewhat the appearance of that of Sequoia 

 RcichenbacJu\ but the leaves are more crowded. Not col- 

 lected by me. 



Raritan : Woodbridge, N. J. Matawan : Cliffwood, N. 

 J., foliage not found. Europe: Moletein, Quedlinburg. 



Sequoia Endl. Syn. Conif. 197. 1S47. 



The genus is unique in that it contains but two dwindling 

 representatives of its former numerous species, one of which 

 is the most majestically graceful of trees. These two species 

 have barely held their own through the vicissitudes of cen- 

 turies since the glacial period in the little strip of country 

 where the climate is locally favorable. Many fossil species 

 have been described, ranging upw^ard from the Upper Jurassic ; 

 about forty-four from this continent alone, some of them with 

 a great lateral and vertical range. 



Potomac 12, Kootanie 6, Trinity i. Ft. Pierre i, Chey- 

 enne Sandstone 2, Raritan 7, Island Raritan 2, Dakota 6, 

 Belly River 3, Montana 4, Vancouver i, Laramie 4, Can- 

 adian Upper Laramie 3, Lignitic i, Livingston i, Ft. Union 

 2, Green River 4, Alaskan Eocene 3, Miocene 3, Payette i, 

 Kome beds of Greenland 5, Atane beds of Greenland 5, 

 Patoot beds of Greenland 5, Tertiary of Greenland 6, of 

 which 4 occur in Europe and 2 on the continent of North 

 America. 



Heer records tw^o species from the Tertiary of Siberia, and 

 Ettingshausen records species from the Tertiaries of eastern 

 Australia, Tasmania and New Zealand. 



Sequoia gracillima (Lesq.) Newb. PI. 48. J". 21 , 22. 



Glyptostrobtis gracillimus Lesq. Am. Jour. Sci. IL 46 : 

 92. 1868 ; Cret. Fl. 52. fl. i. f. 8, 11, iif. 1874; Cret. 



