190 Berry: MESOZOIC FLORA OF THE COASTAL PLAIN 
15: 378, 380, 382, 392. 1895.— Newb. Fl. Amboy Clays 
49. pl. 6. f. 1-13. 1896.— Knowlton, Bull. U. S. Geol. 
Surv. 2577: 132. pl. 76. f. 5. 1905.— Berry, Bull. Torrey 
Club 33: 165. 1906.— Rep. State Geol. New Jersey 1905: 
139. 1906. 
This is the only species of gymnosperm contained in the Caro- 
lina material and it is but sparingly represented. Described 
originally from Bohemia (Cenomanian and Senonian) by Velenov- 
sky, it was recorded in abundance from the Raritan of New Jersey 
by Newberry, from Staten Island by Hollick, from Delaware and 
Maryland by the writer, and from Alabama by Smith, so that it is 
not surprising that it should be found in an intervening region. 
Knowlton, who records a specimen from the Judith river beds of 
Montana, quotes Ward (doc. cit.) as the authority for its occurrence 
in the so-called lower and upper Albirupean of Virginia. A refer- 
ence to the original is indecisive, and since beds of Raritan or 
Magothy age, with which the Albirupean is generally correlated, 
are not known to occur in Virginia, the specimen upon which 
Ward based his statement probably came from some locality in 
Maryland. 
ANGIOSPERMAE 
GRAMINALES (?) 
PHRAGMITES sp. PLATE II, FIGURE 5 
While from a perusal of the literature it would seem that 
almost anything is eligible for reference to the genus Phragmites, 
nevertheless there are in the collections from Court House Bluff 
several well-marked fragments which are clearly referable to this 
genus, without however implying generic felationship with the 
existing members of the genus. — 
While these remains are too imperfect to be of much value, 
they deserve to be recorded as showing the presence of monocoty- 
ledons in the Cretaceous flora of the region. The largest frag- 
ment, which is that figured, is 4 cm. in length by 11 mm. in width, 
with ten well-marked veins, all equal in calibre and with finer 
striations between them, and occasional transverse veinlets discern- 
able. There is a close resemblance to the Long Island remains 
which Hollick calls Poacites,* but since the original use of this 
* Bull. N. Y. Bot. Garden 3: 411. A. 77. f. 7. 1904. 
