24 FOSSIL FLOEA OF THE JOHN DAY BASIN, OREGON. [bull. 201. 



the collection of the United States National Museum, so it is impossi- 

 ble to compare the matrix with that from Bridge Creek, but in the 

 material from this locality obtained by Major Bendire there is a fine 

 specimen that is absolutel,y the same as Lesquereux's type (U. S. Nat. 

 Mus. , No. (50) from Sage Creek, Montana. It is also identical with 

 the figure given by Newberry, and as this species has never before 

 been found outside of the type locality it is more than probable that 

 Newberry's specimen was from Bridge Creek. 



Locality. — Bridge Creek, Grant County, Oregon. Collected by 

 Maj. Charles E. Bendire (U. S. Nat. Mus.,'No. 9220). 



Sequoia anoustifolia Lesq. 



Sequoia angustifolia Lesq., Cret. and Tert. Fl., p. 240, PI. L, fig. 5, 1883. 

 Sequoia Nordenskioldii Heer. Lesquereux, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Vol. XI, p. 19, 1888. 



The Mascall beds at Van Horn's ranch contain a large number of 

 specimens that are undoubtedly the same as Lesquereux's Sequoia 

 angudlfolia from Corral Hollow, San Joaquin County, California. 

 Whether the California material is identical with the original mate- 

 rial" from Elko, Nevada, I am not prepared to say, as the types are 

 not at hand for comparison, but a large number of specimens obtained 

 during the past season at Elko by Prof. George C. Lawson, of the 

 University of California, are absolutely indistinguishable from the 

 specimens as figured by Lesquereux. Such of this material as passed 

 through Lesquereux's hands was referred by him to Glyptostrohus 

 TJngerl with the exception of a single undoubtedly similar example, 

 which was placed under Sequoia Nordeit^Vtoldii as set forth in the 

 above synonymy. This can not be properly referred to American 

 specimens of Glyptodrohui^ Uniji^rl, although, as I have stated on 

 several occasions,'^ the status of this form is at present imsatisfactory. 



In seeking for affinities for these Oregon specimens I have compared 

 most of the figures of conifers given by Heer in his Flora Fossilis 

 Arctica and other pu])lications, and I am forced to the conclusion that 

 there has been more or less confusion in dealing with these forms. 

 Thus I am not able to distinguish what is called bj- Heer Glyptostrohus 

 euTopae/us from the Baltic Miocene'' from the Van Horn's ranch speci- 

 mens, and what seems to be the same species or something very close 

 to it is called Taxodium Tinajorum Heer'^ from the Miocene of Spitz- 

 bergen. The whole subject of the Tertiar}^ conifers, especially of 

 northern and arctic lands, is much in need of revision, and pending 

 this the form under discussion may be referred to Lesquereux's Se<pioia 

 anguHtifolia as t^ypified from Corral Hollow, California. 



In the original description S. angustifolia is characterized as fol- 

 lows: "Leaves short, narrow, linear pointed, erect or slightly 



aSee Tert. Fl., p. 77, PI. VII, figs. 6-10, 1878. cMicp. Bait. FL, PI. Ill, fig.';. 8, 9. 



bCf. Cat. Cret. and Tert. PI. N. A., p, 113. rfFl. Fo.ss. Arc, Vol. II, Abth. 3, PL IV, figs. 6, 29, etc. 



