BERRY: FLORA OF THE MATAWAN FORMATION is 
hausen as Cunninghamites Sternbergit, from the synchronous hori- 
zon of Niederschéna, Saxony, is perhaps more than suggestive. * 
ANGIOSPERMAE 
Myrica Linn. Sp. Pl. 1024. 1753 
A cosmopolitan genus at the present time, except for the 
Australian region (Notogaea), although remains referred to this 
genus have been described by Ettingshausen from the Tertiary of 
eastern Australia and New Zealand. 
The existing species number about three-score and are wide- 
ranging, the same species thriving within wide limits of climate and 
soil conditions. As might be expected from its scale of organiza- 
tion, Myrica is abundant during the Cretaceous, showing its great- 
est display of extinct forms in the Tertiary, however. Well rep- 
resented in the fossil floras of Europe, Schimper thirty years ago 
records eighty-six species of leaves and one of fruit, mostly from 
European localities, where they make their greatest display some- 
What later in the Tertiary than they do in America. The fossil 
Species found on this continent number some seventy forms, dis- 
tributed as follows: Potomac 1; Raritan (N. J.) 8; Raritan 
(Islands) 3; Dakota 10; Atane 5 ; Patoot 3 ; Montana 2; Laramie 
2; Eocene 11; Green River group 19; Miocene 4; Miocene 
(so-called) of Crested 9. 
Eighteen of these forms are common to Europe. 
Myrica Cliffwoodensis sp. nov. (PLATE 4, FIGURE 1.) 
This species is founded on a single drupe or nutlet, which is 4.1 
mm. in diameter, and which is almost certainly referable to Myrica. 
Although slightly flattened by pressure, it was evidently globose 
and had a short stem, somewhat under 2 mm. in length. While 
it may appertain to Myrica Heerii Berry, the only species repre- 
sented by leaves in this formation, we cannot be certain of this and 
it was thought best to keep it separate. 
Seeds, so called, of Myrica are reasonably common as s fossils, 
of which the following have come to my notice: 
ate Kreidef. v. ‘Niederschéna : Sitzb. Akad. Wiss. Wien, ie 02. lor: 
1867 
f. ¢-6. 
