346 Berry: NOTES ON THE GENUS WIDDRINGTONITES 
the abundant remains of this species in the Upper Cretaceous 
beds of South Carolina. A number of specimens from the Tusca- 
loosa formation have these cones attached to the characteristic twigs 
of this species (PLATE 24, FIG. 2). These cones are terminal, roughly 
spheroidal in outline, and apparently consist of four thick scales 
with wide blunt tips and somewhat extended bases. They are 7 
to 9 mm. in length and 4 or 5 mm. in diameter and are closely 
comparable to the cones from the Cretaceous of eastern Europe 
ascribed to Widdringtonites Reichii by both Velenovsky* and 
Krasser.t One of the best preserved of these attached cones from 
Alabama is shown enlarged ten times in FIG. 2a. 
So far as I know, the only previous description of stomatal or 
epidermal characters in fossil species of the genus Widdringtonites 
refers to species preserved in the Baltic amber, which is of Tertiary 
age and some millions of years younger than the species just 
described. One of these species, Wéiddringtonites oblongifolius 
Goeppert and Menge, is extremely close to the Cretaceous species 
Widdringtonites subtilis Heer not only in its general facies but 1 
the details of its epidermal characters. As described recently 
by Caspary,t the chief difference is the more elongated leaf bases, 
a feature that is always of extreme variability in this genus, and 
even within the limits of a single species, as is well shown by the 
specimens of Widdringtonites subtilis, which are figured in the 
present connection. re 
Although so little has been published that refers to Widdrins- 
tonites, several authors have described the somewhat similar 
epidermal characters in the allied extinct genus Frenelops's- 
Thus Zeiller§ described these features for the type of the . 
genus, Frenelopsis Hoheneggeri Schenk, in 1882, and Velenortt 
described the very similar Frenelopsis bohemica in 1888. i y 
the present writer described ]_ these features in Frenelopsis 0” 
it 1885} 
* Velenovsky, Gym. Bohm. Kreidef. 27. pl. 8. f. 4-6; pl. 10. f. Ir 1% u 
Sitz. K. Bohm. Gesell. Wiss. 1886: 639 (6). pl. 1. f. 14-16. 1887. 7 
t Krasser, Beitr. Paliont. Ost.-Ung. u. Orients 10: 126. pl. 14 (4) f. 6 r 
Jo 8, 7.6. > 1Rob. 
t Caspary, R. Abh. K. Preuss. Geol. Landesanstalt. Neue F olge, Heit * 
1906: 66. pl. 9. f. 52~53c (see especially f. 53a, 6, c). 
§ Zeiller, Ann. Sci. Nat. Bot. VI. 13: 231. pl. Il. 
botanique 274. fig. 106 1900. 
|| Velenovsky, Sitz. K. Bohm. Gesell. Wiss. 1888: 590. f. 1-3» 7 
{| Berry, Bot. Gaz. 50; 305-309. f. I, 2. I910. 
1882; Elements de Paleo 
1888. 
