CO'NIFERALES. 8i 



flat stalk about 5 mm. in width, with numerous resin-canals 

 approximately parallel with the lateral margins and dying- out 

 proximad, filled with an amber-like substance. 



Remains of this species were described and figured by Hitch- 

 cock in his account of the organic remains found at Gay Head, 

 Marthas Vineyard, as long ago as 1841. He did not name them, 

 but remarks : "It seems tO' me very obvious that these remains 

 m,ust be the seed vessels of some coniferous plants." In 1882 

 Professor Heer found similar forms in the material from the 

 west coast of Greenland and named and described them, as well as 

 two' other very similar forms, and definitely recognized their re- 

 lation to Damntara. Subsequently they have been recorded from 

 the European Cenomanian bv Velenovsky, Krasser and Beyer, 

 from the Raritan formation by Professor Newberry, from Long 

 Island and Staten Island by Hollick. Unpublished work of the 

 writer will extend their range southward to North Carolina and 

 Alabama. They are abundant in the Raritan formation at 

 Woodbridge and occur at the South Amboy horizon immediately 

 across the Arthur Kill on Staten Island. 



Similar remains have been considered by Heer, White, 

 Krasser and others as representing the fruits of Bucalyptus, but 

 it seems obvious that their relations are definitely with the 

 Araucarian conifers. 



Occurrence. — Woodbridge. 



Collections. — N. Y. Botanical Garden. 



Genus BRACHYPHYLLUM Brogn. 



(Prodrome, 1828, p. 109.) 



Brachyphyllum macrocarpum Newb. 



Plate VII. 



Thuites crassiis Lesq., Cret. & Tert. Fl., 32, 1884. 

 Brachyphyllum crassum Lesq., Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 



10:34, 1887; Fl. Dalcota Group, 32, pi. 2, f. 5, 1892 



(non Tenison-Woods, 1883). 

 Newb., Fl. Ambcy Clays, 51, pi. y, f. i-y, 1896. 

 Brachyphyllum sp., Knowlton, Bull. Geol. Soc, Am. vol. 8: 137, 



140, 1897. 



