82 THE RARITAN FLORA. 



Brachyphyllum macrocarpum, Newb., MSS name mentioned in 



footnote, p. 51, Fl. Amboy Clays, 1896. 

 Knowlton, Bull. U". S. Geol. Surv., No. 163 : 29, pi. 4, f. 5, 



6, 1900. 

 Hollick, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Garden, vol. 3 : 406, pi. yo, f. 4 , 5, 



1904; ^U. S. Geol. Surv. Mon. 50:44, pi. 2, f. p, 10, 



1907. 

 Berry, Ann, Rept. State Geol. (N. J.) for 1905; 139, 1906;. 



Bull. Torrey Club, vol. 32 : 44, pi. 2, f. g, 1905 ; Ibid., 



vol. 33 : 168, pi. p, 1906. 

 Hollick and Jeffrey, Amer. Nat., vol. 40: 200, 1906. 

 f Moriconia cyclotoxon Deb. & Ett., Heer, Fl. Foss. Arct., vol. 7,, 



pi. 54, f. ic, 1883 (non Heer's other figures). 



Description. — Stout twigs, pinnately branched, covered with 

 large, thick, rhomboidal, sc[uamate, densely crowded, appressed 

 leaves attached by practically their whole ventral surface. Phyl- 

 lotaxy spiral. Leaf-surface striated, the striae converging toward 

 the obtuse apex. Cones not positively determined. 



Brachyphyllum is chiefly an older Mesozoic ij^o., but it remains 

 abundant through the Lower Cretaceous, two' species having been 

 described from the Potomac Group O'f Maryland and Virginia. 

 It is a waning type in the Upper Cretaceous, represented by but 

 a single species, the one under discussion, which persists as high 

 as the Senonian. It is widely distributed, and is recorded from 

 Long Island, Staten Island, New Jersey and Delaware, in the 

 east, and from the Dakota Group, of Kansas, and the Montana 

 Group of Wyoming, in the west.^ It is probably represented in 

 the Patoot beds of Greenland, by the material which Heer erro- 

 neously refers (loc. cit.) to Moriconia. While it is not recorded 

 from Europe, Velenovsky has described remains from the Ceno- 

 manian of Bohemia, which appear to be identical with the 

 American representatives, referring them to the Jurassic genus 

 Bcliinostrobus of Schimper.- Hollick and Jeffrev ha\-e recentlv 



^ It has also been collected by the writer in North Carolina, South Carolina, 

 Georgia and Alabama. 



^Velen., Gym. Bohm. Kreidef. 1885, p. 16. pi. vi, figs. 3, 6-8; Kvetena ces- 

 keho cenomanu, 1889, p. g, pi. i, figs. 11-19; pi. ii, figs, i, 2. 



