(58) 



i&Tert. Fl. 32. //././. d,(5<5. 1883. "Cone of Sequoia" 

 (not described) 111. Cret. & Tert. PI. fl. 11. J. g. 

 187S. Fl. Dak. Group, z^- 1892. 



Sequoia gracillima Newb. Fl. Amboy Clays, 50. -pi. g. 

 f. 1-3. 1896 ; Later Ext. Fl. 19. ^/. /^. f. 6; fl. 26. f. 

 p (?).*_ 1898. _ 



The earliest mention of what is presumably this species is 

 in a contribution by Newberry, f in which he refers to cones 

 occurring in the Cretaceous Clays near Keyport (probably 

 this is the Cliffwood locality) which he referred to Geinitzia^ 

 and associated branches which he referred to Ullmannia 

 Goepp. In his posthumous Later Extinct Floras, these cones 

 are referred to Sequoia gracillima; in the Flora of the Am- 

 boy Clays, which was also issued posthumously, he makes the 

 same reference and compares them to Heer's Sequoia mac- 

 rolepis (Fl. Foss. Arct. 7 : 16. fl. 5/. f. ij) considering 

 them identical. 



Hollick describes two cones from Cliffwood as Geinitzia 

 Jormosa Heer. They are much distorted and incrusted with 

 pyrites and possibly should be referred to Sequoia gracillima. 

 Cones of this species are very common, the silicified ones 

 washing out of the clay on the beach and the lignified ones 

 occurring in considerable abundance in place in the clays. 

 I have in my collection the remains of 32 cones, some of 

 them nearly perfect and but slightly compressed, and I have 

 refrained from collecting innumerable poor specimens seen. 

 The largest is 8.5 cm. long, cylindrical, somewhat flattened, 

 measuring 14 mm. in its shorter diameter and 18 mm. in its 

 longer diameter. Most of them average nearly this thick- 

 ness but are somewhat shorter, being about 7 cm. long. 



Matawan : Cliffwood, N. J. (foliage not found). 



Raritan (?): Keyport, N. J. 



Cheyenne Sandstone : Belvidere, Kansas. Dakota Group : 

 Sioux Cit}^ Iowa. Cretaceous (Dakota?) : Whetstone Creek, 

 New Mexico. 



* Questioned by Hollick, editor of Newberry's work. 

 tProc. N. Y. Lye. Nat. Hist. 2: 10. 1873. 



