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shown, with the aid of specimens from Staten Island, with 

 structure preserved (loc. cit.), that this species is referable to 

 the Araucariese. 



This species is extremely common in the upper Raritan beds 

 at South Amboy and their eastward extension on Staten Island, 

 but has not been collected from any oi the plant-bearing horizons 

 of the lower Raritan. Prof. Newberry describes (loc. cit.) 

 large cones which he found associated with these twigs and 

 which he thought were related tO' them, although this seems 

 improbable. The cones are poorly preserved and their affinities 

 cannot be made out. They are very different from previously 

 described cones of Brae hyp hy Hum; and the work of Hollick and 

 Jeffrey (loc. cit.) would seem to indicate that the present species 

 had small cones. The cones described by Prof. Newberry, while 

 they are here retained in the synonym of this species, are com- 

 parable to the abundant cones from the older Potomac oi Mary- 

 land, which are referred tO' the form genus Abietites. 



Occurrence. — South Amboy. 



Collections. — N. Y. Botanical Garden. 



Sub-Family CuprESSE^. 



Genus THUJA Linne. 



(Sp. PI., 1753. P- 1002.) 



TiHUjA CRETACEA (Heer) Newb. 



Libocednis crctacca Heer, Fl. Foss. Arct., vol. 6, ab. 2 : 49, pi. 



29, f. 1-3; pi. 43, f. id, 1882. 

 Thuja crctacca Newb., Fl. Amboy Clays, 53, pi. 10, f. i, la, 

 1896. 

 Knowlton, Bull. Ut S. Geol. Suiw., No. 257:133, pi. 16, 



f. 3a, 1905. 

 Berry, Bull. Torrey Club, vol. 33: 169, 1906. 



Description. — "L. ramulis gracilibus, oppositis, compressis, 

 foliis quadrifariam imbricatis, lateralibus basi connatis, appressis 



