254 Berry: Araucarian remains 



specimen would then represent the single vascular bundle which 

 passed into the base of the scale. This object is now refigured 



(PLATE I I, FIGURE i). 



Another problematical fossil which may possibly belong to the 

 Araucarieae is the cone previously described simply as " gymno- 

 spermous cone " Berry * and refigured on plate i I (figure 2). 

 This might be a staminate Araucarian strobilus, for while most of 

 the modern Araucarieae have greatly elongated staminate strobili, 

 they become shortened and subcylindrical in some species, as for 

 example in Araucaria excelsa, the Norfolk Island pine and more 

 particularly in the genus Agathis (Dammar a). 



Arancaritcs Zcilleri may be compared with the cone described 

 by Velenovsky from the homotaxial deposits (Cenomanian) of 

 Bohemia under the name of Araucaria bohemica^ which is seen 

 to be similar in appearance, and to the several species of cones of 

 Araucaria and Pseudo- araucaria which have been described by 

 Fliche from the Albien of France (Bull. Soc. Sci. Nancy, 1 7 1— 195- 

 pl* 5-f- 4,5 ; PL 6.f. 2-5 ; pi. y.f. /, 2. 1896). 



Nothing similar has heretofore been collected at Cliffvvood 

 Bluff, where so many coniferous remains have been found, and it 

 is of especial interest in coming after the recent announcement by 



Hollick & Jeffrey (loc. cit.) of two types of Araucarioxylon lignite 

 from the not distant and possibly homotaxial horizon at Krei- 

 scherville, Staten Island, J one type which they have correlated 

 with Brachyphyllum twig-impressions and with Protodavtmara 

 cone-scales and the other more like recent Araucarian wood 

 which might well represent the present species — with resinous 

 tracheids, no traumatic resin canals, and with a large pith com- 

 posed mainly of tanniniferous cells. It has seemed best to use 

 the generic term Araucarites as one which is of broader significance 

 than Araucaria, since the preservation of the cone is such that it 

 might equally well be considered as a Mid-Cretaceous representa- 

 tive of the allied genus Agathis (Dammar a). 



*Berry, loc. cit. 31 : 72. //. 4 .f. 7 . 1904. 



t Velenovsky, Kvetena ceskSho cenomanu, 8. //. /./ 20-24. 1889. 

 t The major part of the Kreischerville deposit is of Raritan age but there is some 

 evidence that the leaf-bearing layers may be later. 



