72 Berry: FLORA OF THE MATAWAN FORMATION 
Frenelopsis Hoheneggert Schenk, Palaeont. _ 13. Wt. @ f. §-77 fl. Be ID 
a: A o,f Os A. 2. 7. % 1860. eer, Fl. Foss. Arct. 9: 73. 2h 
18. J Fa. TAs Gt 7. pe. a. fF 7p: gre 62: 16. 1882. Fontaine 
Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 16: 275. - 42. f. 4, ga. 1893. Newb. Fl. Am- 
boy Clays, 58. p/. 72. fi 4,5. 1896. 
This species which is common in the Urgonian of Austrian 
Silesia has been quite elaborately described and figured by Schenk 
(2. c.). If the various identifications of other authors are correct it 
was a widespread and persistent type, ranging from the Neocomian 
to the Turonian in Moravia, France, and Austrian Silesia, as well 
as in Greenland (Kome). In the United States it has been re- 
corded from the Trinity of Texas and the Raritan of New Jersey, 
while very similar species occur in the Potomac of Maryland and 
Virginia. Its occurrence in the Matawan brings it down to a still © 
later period. The Matawan specimens are numerous and frag- 
mentary, and are distinguished with difficulty from the many frag- 
ments of other twigs preserved in the clays, all of which except 
the silicified forms have shrunk and have a more or less jointed 
appearance. All are decorticated and I fail to find any traces of 
leaves, but the regularity of the joints and the absence of longitu- 
dinal cracks in the larger specimens, which are always present in 
other twigs of similar size, has constrained me to refer them to the 
above species. Until material with positive traces of leaves is 
found this reference can only be provisional. 
Gymnospermous Cone. (PLATE 4, FIGURE 7.) 
I cannot conclude whether this is a cone with comparatively 
thin overlapping pointed scales, or whether it is a much-worn cone 
with thick-keeled scales which would then be inverted in the fig- 
ure. The scales certainly seem to overlap in places, but this 
feature is much obscured, and I rather incline to the interpretation 
that we have a petrified cone of Seguoia which has washed out of 
the clay and become much reduced and worn smooth in the wash 
of the beach. As it stands it might be compared, except for its 
larger size, with the staminate strobili of Podocarpus or Phyllocla- 
dus. If it should prove to be a cone with imbricated pointed 
scales I would be inclined to associate it with the genus Cunming- 
hamites, remains of which are so abundant in this formation. In 
this connection its resemblance to the cones described by Ettings- 
