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leaf fragments have been found in the clays, occurring precisely as 
they may be found in the clays of New Jersey. On the opposite 
side, and along the shore of the Sound vari-colored clays are 
to be seen outcropping on the shore and at the base of the 
bluff. At a point about midway between the mouth of the cove 
and Glen Cove landing is a stratum containing lignite, pyrite, 
and a quantity of red ferruginous shale, in which latter the 
leaf impressions are well preserved. This stratum is uncovered 
at low tide, and may be traced into the adjoining bluff. The 
red shale may be here seen in place and be readily obtained. 
The tides constantly wear away the clay, exposing the shale, 
and this is torn out by the waves and scattered along the 
beach. The first specimens were found in this manner, merely 
as loose fragments on the beach, and it was not until about a 
year ago that they were traced to their original situation in the 
clay outcrop. 
Following is the list of cretaceous species thus far identified : 
Magenouia Capeniini, Heer. 
Pl ViS t's, 
This specimen is referred to the species described and 
figured by Prof. Heer in Phyllites Crétacées du Nebraska, T. 
III. f. 5, 6,and Flor. Foss. Arct. III. T. XX XIII. f. 1-4. In the 
original description of the Nebraska leaf, the base of the leaf is 
described and figured as obtuse, which characteristic does not 
seem to be insisted upon in the specimens subsequently identi- 
fied by the author with the same species from the L. Atane 
beds of Greenland. With the latter, our specimen is plainly 
identical. 
Locality : Glen Cove, L. I. 
Maenotia speciosa, Heer. 
PLO VEEN EA 
In the Kreide-Flora von Moletein, on P]. VI., VII. and IX.’ 
Prof. Heer figures under this name certain species which so 
closely resemble the one here figured, that if we are to retain it 
in the genus Magnolia no separation would seem advisable. I 
have thought that its affinities might be with Zaurus, (See L. 
proteefolia, Lesq. Cret. and Tert. Flor, VIII. 52, 53, Pl. III. f. 9, 
10 and XVI. f. 6), or with certain forms described under Ficus, 
(Ff. Krausiana, Heer, Kreide-Flora von Moletein, 15, Pl. V. f. 
3-6), but its general appearance and associations seem to be 
