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clays near Cliffvvood, N. J.* These specimens are remarkable in 

 being about one hundred per cent, more robust than any of the 

 former that have been figured, and invariably have the main stem 

 covered with the usual leaves, which are wanting on the stem in 

 most of the Greenland specimens. 



Recently the writer found several characteristic specimens of 

 this species in the Deep Cut of the Delaware & Chesapeake 

 canal just inside the Delaware state line, thus extending the known 

 range one hundred miles southwest from Cliffvvood, N. J. The 

 writer has also collected it recently at Grove Point on Chesapeake 

 Bay some eighteen miles further along the strike from Deep Cut. 



So many of the mid-Cretaceous forms that are common in the 

 coastal plain flora extended around its then southern border (Tus- 

 caloosa formation of Alabama) that it would seem as if a careful 

 search would reveal this species as well. 



With regard to the botanical affinities of this plant, its gymno- 

 spermous nature has been commonly accepted of late years, and I 

 cannot say that I know of any valid arguments against such 

 affinity. It seems strange, in view of the abundant remains at 

 South Amboy and Cliffvvood, that no fruits have ever been found 

 associated with the twigs, or in a position to suggest such an as- 

 sociation. Another anomaly is the delicate texture of some of 

 the specimens ; for instance, from Grove Point, Maryland, I have a 

 good-sized specimen which is of the thinnest consistency, suggest- 



ing a lax thallophyte, and yet showing in detail the characteristic 

 markings of this species, which once seen are unmistakable. 



Fkenelopsis gracilis Newb. Fl. Amboy Clays 59. //. 12. f. 



1-3 a. 1896. 



This species was described by Newberry from Woodbridge, N. 

 J., and does not show an organism whose botanical relations we 

 can be at all certain about. Some of my Maryland material, origi- 

 nally included under Widdringtonites Rcichii (Ett.) Heer, is iden- 

 tical with Newberry's species, both probably representing the 

 decorticated twigs of the latter which is so common in these 

 formations. 



* Berry, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 3 : 65. //. 43. f. 4 ; pi. 48- /■ /• 1903.— Bull. 



Torrey Club 31 : 70. 1904. 



