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it really is a Nageiopsis, it is not worth considering further in this 

 connection. 



A European form which must surely be considered as a nearly 

 related congener of Araucaria bladenensis is Saporta' s Araucaria 

 Toucasi described from the Turonian of Beausset near Toulon, 

 France.* This is strikingly similar to the Carolina species in every 

 respect and likewise closely allied, in appearance at least, to the 

 recent Araucaria Bidzuilli of Australia. 



Kerner \ records Pachyphyllum {Pagiopliylluni) rigidutn Saporta 

 and Pacliyphyllum (Pagiophylluin) araucarinum Saporta from the 

 Cenomanian of Lesina, an island in the Adriatic off the coast of 

 Dalmatia, both being originally Jurassic species from the French 

 Corallien of Verdun J. Both are very similar to the Carolina 

 species and are of about the same age. The probable identity 

 of Cenomanian and Corallian species, it seems to me, is extremely 

 doubtful, and both of Kerner' s species should undoubtedly be con- 

 sidered as new species of Araucaria and nearly related, if not iden- 



Meso 



caria Toucasi. 



Other fossil remains which deserve to be mentioned in this 

 connection and which may- really be Araucarian, although abun- 

 dantly distinct from this Carolina species, are Podozamites ? acutus 

 Saporta § from the Neocomian of Portugal, whose resemblance to 

 Nageiopsis ovata and N. zamioidcs is noted by Saporta ; and Podo- 



Bornholm || 



'llipl 



Nageiopsis 



montanensis Font, from the Kootanie ; and Pagiophyllum sp. 

 Dawson f from the Kootanie of Canada. 



Araucaria bladenensis occurs abundantly as detached leaves in 

 the Cretaceous dark-drab, very lignitic clays, at numerous localities 

 in the south Atlantic Coastal plain, and occasionally as twigs of 

 considerable size showing phyllotaxy and other characters. It is 

 preeminently the type fossil of the Bladen formation of North Caro- 



* Saporta, Le Monde des Plantes 198. / 27. 1879. 



t Kerner, Jahrb. k.k. Geol. Reichsanst. 45 : 49- /'• #•/ 3 * 5°. //. 4- f- I 



J Saporta, Plantes Jurassiques, Paleont. Franc, Vegetaux,//. 177, 178. 



\ Saporta, Fl. Foss. Portugal 87. //. 16. / 28. 1894. 



|| Moller, Kongl. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl. 36^1 8.//. f.f. 9- IQ °3- 



% DAWSON, Trans. Roy. Soc. Can. io 1 : 90. f* *4* l8 9 2 - 



