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ondaries are some little distance apart, as in the Raritan specimens. 

 The larger leaves from New Jersey, which Prof. Newberry re- 

 ferred to this species, are not related to the smaller ones from 

 South Amboy, which appear to be correctly identified. 



This species is wide-ranging and has been recorded from a 

 number of Cenomanian localities in Europe and from the Atane 

 beds of Greenland, the Dakota Group of Kansas, the Magothy 

 formation of New Jersey and Delaware, the Bladen formation 

 of North Carolina, from Marthas Mneyard, Block Island, Long 

 Island and Staten Island. 



The specimens from South Amboy described by Prof. New- 

 berry as Bucaiypfus angiis4ifoIia are here referred to Eucalyptus 

 Geinitm, to which species the Marthas Vineyard forms certainly 

 belong. The Raritan leaves are segregated by Newberry on the 

 ground of their more attenuated base and apex. This is shown to 

 some extent in his Figure i, but not in his other two figures, 

 Figure 7 showing a leaf with a rounded base. My experience has 

 been that the observed variation in undoubted leaves of Eucalyp- 

 tus Geinitm is sufficiently wide to include leaves like those re- 

 ferred to E. augustifolia. There is ho advantage in maintaining 

 on paper a species based on fragmentary material which it is 

 impossible to differentiate with certainty. The name E- angus- 

 tifolia is antedated by the living species so-called by Desvaux in 

 1822, and rather than rename the Raritan plant it is referred to 

 the present species. 



Under his discussion of Eucalyptus augustifolia Prof. New- 

 berry goes into a somewhat lengthy discussion of the objects 

 which Prof. Heer regarded as Eucalyptus fruits, and records it 

 as his opinion that they are unrelated to Eucalyptus and con- 

 generic with the so-called scales of Dam mar a extensively dis- 

 tributed in mid-Cretaceous deposits. The lapse of time has fully 

 sustained the latter view, and no paleobotanist at the present time 

 w^ould think of supporting the former view.^ Not only is this 

 the case, but in one species of Dauimara, at least, it has been 

 shown by structural specimens that it and presumably all the 

 other species are referable to the Araucariese. 



^ Some of the Bohemian remains are not included in this statement. 



