344 Berry: Nores ON THE GENUS WIDDRINGTONITES 
central and western Europe. Like so many other types of plants 
which were widespread in Mesozoic time, they became more and 
more restricted in their range during the Tertiary, until today 
they are not found at all in the western hemisphere and are 
confined to the limited areas indicated on the accompanying sketch 
map (FIG. 1). 
If we refer only to the Cretaceous forms of Widdringtonites 
there are four species in the Neocomian, one in the Barremian, one 
in the Albian, three in the Cenomanian, and one in the Senonian. 
Widdringtonites subtilis was described from the Atane (Upper 
Cretaceous) beds of Greenland by Professor Heer* in 1874. His 
material was, however, extremely limited. Subsequently, similar 
remains were found in considerable abundance in the Raritan 
formation of New Jersey,t and still more recently Hollickt has 
recorded them from Marthas Vineyard and Block Island (Mag- 
othy formation). The writer has found it in the Magothy 
formation of Maryland§ and in the Middendorf beds of South 
Carolina.||_ It may also be questioned if some of the coniferous 
material described by Velenovsky from the Bohemian Upper 
Cretaceous under other names should not be compared with the 
present form. 
The material from the Tuscaloosa formation of western Ala- 
bama, which furnishes the basis for the following notes, is abundant, 
being especially common at the locality known as the Snow Place 
Tuscaloosa County; and it enables a considerable addition to be 
made to the knowledge of this species, which may be described a 
follows: 
Foliage more or less dimorphic, very variable in this wei 
Leaves, especially those on the young twigs, arranged in a crowd 
spiral, small and pointed; the inner surface comparatively frat 
bounded laterally by sharp, somewhat thickened: angular eds 
the outer side broad, full, and rounded. The young louver 
crowded and relatively short, broad, and appressed, the short! 
curved pointed tips giving them the appearance of being Foul” 
§ Berry, Johns Hopkins Univ. Circ. New series 7: 81. 1997: 
| Berry, Bull. Torrey Club 38: 421. 1911. 
