188 BERRY: MESOZOIC FLORA OF THE COASTAL PLAIN 
the lignite at this locality was observed to contain amber in small 
drops, in this respect resembling the Cretaceous deposits of Staten 
Island, New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland. As previously 
mentioned, some of the sandy lignitic exposures on the lower Cape 
Fear river were observed to contain leaves, and in my notes the 
following are recorded from near Big Sugar Loaf Landing: d/ag- 
nolia, Laurus, Ficus daphnogenoides, Sequoia heterophylla, cone- 
impression, and fragments of a fern. It was impossible to save 
this material, so that these identifications may be regarded as ten- 
tative for the present. 
In the preserved material there are twenty-nine recognizable 
species. Of these, seven were described by Heer from Greenland, 
seven were originally described from the Dakota group, and seven 
were originally described from the New Jersey Raritan. In addi- 
tion Newberry identified in the Raritan eight more of these species 
which were originally described by Heer or Lesquereux from other 
regions than New Jersey. A number of the forms, like Andro- 
meda Parlatorii Heer, Diospyros primaeva Heer, Ficus daphnoge- 
noides (Heer) Berry, and Sequoia heterophylla Velen., have been 
found at nearly all of the localities for Cretaceous plants of Atane, 
Raritan, Dakota and Magothy age, so that they may be omitted 
from our calculations. 
There are seven forms in this contribution which it has not 
been possible to identify with previously described remains and 
which are here described as new. Of these Quercus and Ptero- 
spermites point to the beds being slightly more recent than the 
Raritan, as does the occurrence of species like Czunamomum 
Fleert Lesq. and Magnolia Capellinii Heer, which are Dakota 
group plants recorded from the Magothy formation, but not with 
certainty from the Raritan; although Lesquereux recorded both 
from beds of that age in his report to George H. Cook included in 
the clay report of 1878. The striking absence of gymnosperms 
and pteridophytes, both in North Carolina and Alabama, as com- 
pared with New Jersey, may possibly indicate that the physical — 
conditions of the region favored the replacement of the gymno- 
sperms of farther north by evergreen dicotyledons ; and the ferns, 
always a fragmentary and infrequent element in the middle and 
later Mesozoic floras, were simply not preserved or have not been 
