Contributions to the Mesozoic flora of the Atlantic coastal plain — V.* 
North Carolina 
EpwarRbpD W. BERRY 
(WITH PLATES 19-24) 
In a brief communication by the writer published in 1907,+ 
twenty-nine species of fossil plants were recorded from the Mid- 
Cretaceous deposits of North Carolina. Subsequently, Zmion 
carolinianum *¢ as well as two species of Araucaria § were deemed to 
be worthy of special description. The present paper adds twenty- 
nine species to this flora, bringing the total number of known forms 
up to sixty-one. These are all contained in the Black Creek for- 
mation and are of Mid-Cretaceous age, z. ¢., somewhere in the 
lower half of the Upper Cretaceous. Continued exploration by 
Dr. L. W. Stephenson and the writer has increased the number of 
localities where Cretaceous plants have been found from four 
to twenty-five, all of which were unknown previous to1907. The 
flora is not large and probably not more than a dozen or fifteen 
species will be added to it when the collections in hand are fully 
studied. It offers many interesting physical and biological prob- 
lems which will be discussed in detail in a fully illustrated report 
upon this flora now in course of preparation for the North Carolina 
Geological Survey. 
In the first contribution to this flora allusion was made to the 
striking absence of representatives of the class Gymnospermae, 
only one Seguota having been recorded at that time and that one 
but sparingly represented. The present contribution increases the 
number of Gymnosperms to fifteen, which include two members 
of the order Cycadales and thirteen of the order Pinales. The 
family Taxaceae has one or more species and the remaining spe- 
* Published by permission of the Director of the U. S. Geological Survey, and the 
North Carolina Geological Survey. 
+ Berry, Bull. ee Club 34: 185-206. p/. rr—-76. mist 
t Berry, Amer. Jour. Sci. IV. 25 : 382-386. f 7-3. 
2 Berry, Bull: Torrey Club 35: 249-260. p/. rz-16+f.7, 2. 1908. 
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