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CUNNINGHAMITES SQUAMOSUS Hecr. PL 48./. 1 4, IQ. 



Cunninghamites squamosus Heer, Beitr. Kreidfl. Qued- 

 linb. 9. fl. I. f. 5-7. 1872. Hollick, Trans. N. Y. 

 Acad. Sci. i6 : 129. //. 1 1 . f. 3. 1897. (Not of Hosius 

 and Von der INIarck.) 

 Remains of this species are the most abundant coniferous 

 fossils in the clays at Cliffwood. They occur as twigs about 

 the size of those figured by Hollick or smaller and demand 

 no extended discussion. This is the only locality in this 

 country where they have been found, but additional collec- 

 tions from the Amboy Clays ought to disclose them. The 

 two specimens figured are more robust than the majority of 

 the remains and are ten sevenths of the average size, al- 

 though several large specimens were collected. On the 

 usual-sized specimens the leaves are about 6 mm. long, closely 

 set, stout, incurved, very much crowded in some instances 

 and quite different in appearance from those of Sequoia 

 Retchenbacki \m\h. which it is often associated. 



CUNNINGHAMITES ELEGANS (Corda) Endl. 



Cunninghamia clegans Corda; Reuss, Verstein. Bohm. 



Kreidef. gz- P^- 49- f- ^9-31 • 1846. 

 Cunninghaniites clegans Endl. Syn. Conif. 270. 1847. 



Heer, Beitrag. Kreidefl. (Neue. Denkschr. Schweiz. 



Gesell.) 12. ^l. j.f. 14. 1869. Schimper, Pal. Veg. 2 : 



256. Heer, Fl. Foss. Arct. 7: 17. fl. 53^/. i. 1883. 



Newb. Fl. Amboy Clays, 48. fl. 5. f. i-j. 1896. 



Hollick, Trans. N. Y. Acad. Sci. 16: 129. fl. 11. f. 2. 



1897. Hollick, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Garden, 2: 402. _^/. 



41. f. II. 1902. (Knowlton, U. S. Geol. Surv. 



Bull. 163 : 29. fl. 5. f. 3. 1900, probably belongs 



here.) 

 Cunninghaniites squamosus Hosius & Von der Marck, Fl. 



Westfal. Kreide. 54. //. J7. /. 137-141. (Palaeonto- 



graphica, v. 26.) 1880. 

 Originally described from Moletein in Moravia and Mseno 

 in Bohemia (Cenomanian), then from the chalk of Westphalia ; 



