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Description,. — It seems very desirable that at least the leaves 

 which are included under Newberry's Pinms sp. should have a 

 specific names since pine leaves of this type in fascicles of three 

 occur to the southward in the Coastal Plain, and a definite name 

 is. therefore a necessity for purposes of intelligent citation. 

 Whether the poorly-preserved cones and winged seeds, which 

 occur in the same beds, are referable to the same species it is im- 

 possible to determine, and since in the overlying Magothy forma- 

 tion there are two types of leaves of Pimis, as well as quite 

 different seeds, I have placed a query after Newberry's figures 

 of cones and seeds in the above citation. Pinus seems to be 

 confined to the upper part of the Raritan, although leaves, cones 

 and seeds are common in much older deposits elsewhere, going 

 back as far as the Jurassic. Leaves are recorded from the 

 Kome, Kootanie, Trinity and Lakota formation, the Patapsco 

 formation of Maryland and the Albian of Europe is remarkable 

 for the large number of Pinus-like cones which it contains, and 

 Heer has recorded five species from the Atane beds. 



Occurrence. — South Amboy. 



Collections. — U. S. National Museum, N. Y. Botanical Garden. 



Sub-Family Taxodie^. 



Genus SEQUOIA Endl. 



(Synop. Conif., 1847, p. 197.) 



Sequoia Reichenbachi (Gein) Heer.' 



Araucarites Reichenbachi Gein., Charakteristik, hft. 3 : 98, pi. 24, 



f. -/, 1842. 

 Cryptonneria primaeva Corda in Reuss, Verst. Bohm. Kreidef. 



ab. 2:89. pi. 48, f. i-ii, 1846. 

 Sequoia Reichenbachi Heer. Fl. Foss. Arct., vol. i : 83, pi. 4^, f. 



id, 2b, 5a, 1868; Ibid., vol. 3, ab. 2:77, loi, 126, 



pi. 12, f. re d; pi. .20, f. 1-8; pi. 28, f. 2; pi. 34, f. i; 



pi. 36, f. 1-8; pi. 57. /. I, 2, 1874; Ibid., vol. 6, ab. 



2:52, pi. 28, f. 7, 1882. 



'Only representative citations, chiefly American, of this widespread and 

 persistent species are given. 



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