88 THE RARITAN FLORA. 



Widdringtonia Reichii (Ettings.) Velen. Gym. Bohm. Kreidef., 

 27, pi. 8, f. 4-6; pi. 10, f. I, II, 12, 1885; Sitzs. k. 

 Bohm. Gesell. Wiss. 1886; 639 (6) pi. i, f. 14-1^, 

 1887. 

 Krasser, Beitr. Palaont. Ost-Ung. und Orients, Bd. 10: 126 

 (14) pi. 14 (4), f. 6; pi. 17 (7), /. 4> 7, 8, 1896. 



Descnption. — -"F. ramis suberectis fastigiatis, ramulis fili- 

 formibus confertis, foliis adpressis e basi ovata subulatis, stro- 

 bilis axillaribus duplo longioribus quam latis." Ettings. 1867. 



Medium-sized branches with more or less crowded, slender, 

 elongated, fastigiate twigs, bearing reduced ovate-subulate 

 leaves, spirally arranged. The cones are small oval bodies 5 

 mm. to 12 mm. long, by 3 mm. to 7 mm. in diameter, usually 

 poorly preserved, said by Ettingshausen to be axillary in posi- 

 tion, but evidently often terminal as evinced by some of the 

 Raritan material as well as by some of the better preserved 

 cones from the Cenomanion of Bohemia and Moravia. The latter 

 material clearly shows that the cones consisted of four scales. 

 This would ally it with either the subgenus Widdringtonia of the 

 genus CaUitris Vent., to which Eichler in his treatment of the 

 living species in Engler and Prantl (1887) refers Endlicher's 

 genus, OT to the subgenus Bucallitris Brongn., which alsoi is 

 characterized by four cone-scales. The latter has a single living 

 species of northern Africa: and the former has three or four 

 species of southern Africa and Madagascar. The propriety oi 

 Eichler's classification may well be questioned, and in any event 

 paleobotanists must necessarily prefer the older segregation of 

 Preneia and Widdringtonia and their respective form-genera. 



There seems to be but little doubt that the present species 

 should be referred to^ Widdringtonia, as Velenovsky and Krasser 

 have done, but as the term Widdringtonites is equally indicative 

 of its true affinity, little is to be gained by making the proposed 

 change. 



This species, which is probably the most common conifer of 

 the Raritani foiTnation, was described originally by Ettings- 

 hausen from the Cenomanian of Niederschoena, in SajKony, as a 



