188 Berry: MESOZOIC FLORA OF THE COASTAL PLAIN 
Solms-Laubach * seems to consider probable. Bertrand} has 
described carbonized seeds from the Aachenien of Tournay, Bel- 
gium, under the name of Vesguia Tournaisii, which he considers, 
because of the arrangement of the vascular bundles, as intermediate 
between Zumion and Cephalotaxus. It certainly seems to be not 
without significance that remains of this sort occur at nearly homo- 
taxial horizons in America, Europe, and Greenland. 
None of the foregoing, however, are comparable with the 
present forms, although certain indefinite remains described by 
Lesquereux as /nolepis sp.,{ are remotely suggestive of them. It 
is not believed, however, that they are congeneric. 
The modern genus Cephalotaxus Sieb. & Zucc., with four spe- 
cies, is confined to the China-Japan region, although it seems evi- 
dent that it was much more widespread in former geologic times, 
and to it should probably be referred some of the leafy twigs 
included in the genus 7axites Brong. Fruits of three species of 
Cephalotaxus, apparently identified correctly, are described by 
Kinkelin § from the upper Pliocene deposits of the Main Valley in 
Germany. The considerations which seem to indicate a closer 
relationship with Cephalotaxus than with Podocarpus are the absence 
of the thickened peduncle of the latter and the presence of foli- 
age in the same beds with these seeds described by the writer as 
Tumion carolinianum || and which is of the same type as that of 
Cephalotaxus and might with propriety have been the foliage of 
the tree which bore the very abundant fruits here named Cepha/o- 
taxospermum. 
OccuRRENCE: Seventy-four and three-fourths miles above Wil- 
mington, Sykes Landing (common), Big Bend (very common), A. 
C. L. Bridge (very common), Corbits Bridge, all localities on the 
Black River in Sampson County; Parker pe cene, fark Tar River (?). 
x ‘Solms- Laubach, Fossil Botany 61. gee 
1883. 
{ Lesquereux, in Hayden’s Ann. Rept. for en: 337. pl. ¢. f. 8. 1876; Cret. 
883. 
ae & Kinkelin, Abh. Senckenb. Naturf. Gesell. 293: 194. p/. 27. f- 
\ ‘i ‘Anes Jour. Sci. IV. 25: 382-386. f 7-3. 1908. 
