BERRY: MESOZOIC FLORA OF ATLANTIC COASTAL PLAIN 423 
Illicium, and by four well-known species of Magnolia, two of which 
range northward as far as Greenland, and three of which range 
southward into Alabama. 
There are five species of Rosales: a Hmmclitar two species 
of Leguminosites, a Caesalpinia, and an Acacia-like form. The_ 
order Geraniales, while poorly represented, contains two remark- 
able forms: a Citrophyllum very close to the modern genus Citrus, 
and Crotonophyllum, a genus allied to the modern genus Croton 
of the family Euphorbiaceae. Crotonophyllum is rather common 
in the Middendorf beds, the only other species of the genus oc- 
curring in the Cenomanian of Bohemia. 
The order Sapindales is a large one represented by six species: 
a form doubtfully referred to the genus Pachistima, a Sapindus, a 
large Rhus, and by three species of Celastrophyllum, a genus 
abundant from toward the close of the Lower Cretaceous until 
the close of the Colorado. The order Thymeleales also includes 
six species: two well-known species of Laurus, two species of 
Laurophyllum, and two of Cinnamomum,—one the widespread 
Cinnamomum Newberryi,* and the other new. The Myrtales have 
three species of Eucalyptus, the order Umbellales is represented 
by a single infrequent species of Hedera, and the Ericales by four 
species of Andromeda, one of which is new. The Primulales are 
represented by a single rather widespread species of Myrsine, and 
the Ebenales by two species of Diospyros. 
This flora, of which a brief abstract has just been given, serves 
to indicate certain physical conditions which prevailed at the 
time it flourished. Abundantly confirmed by the character of the 
deposits, it indicates a considerable elevation and relief of the 
Piedmont area of South Carolina with numerous streams of a 
considerable gradient. While no precise results regarding the 
climate are possible, it is safe to assume that it was mild and uni- 
form though not necessarily tropical. We may confidently assert 
that frosts were unknown. The climate was humid, the presence 
of‘ numerous coriaceous-leaved forms being due to insolation or 
exposure to winds, especially along the strand, and to a swamp 
* This is a new name for the well-known species Cinnamomum inlermedium of 
Newberry, the name intermedium — been previously used by Baron Ettings- 
hausen. 
