BERRY: FLORA OF THE MATAWAN FORMATION 79 
ARALIA Ravniana Heer. 
The present season’s collections contain a single, somewhat 
indefinite specimen of this species. 
ARALIA PALMATA Newb. (PLATE 4, FIGURE 12.) 
This was apparently a common species in Matawan times, if we 
may judge from the abundance of leaf fragments in the clays. 
The present season’s collections contain numerous fragments of 
this leaf. The one figured I refer doubtfully to this species. It 
is certainly the same as wo. 6 of last year’s collection, but both 
differ from the typical leaves in their straight secondaries. 
ANDROMEDA Partatorit Heer. (PLATE I, FIGURES I, 2.) 
Well-characterized remains of doubtful botanical affinity com- 
mon throughout the Cenomanian of the United States and Green- 
land. They are particularly abundant in the Raritan formation 
and the Matawan leaves here figured are the counterpart of several 
figured by Newberry. They are larger than the leaves from the 
Dakota group or from Greenland, and are also larger than the 
Matawan leaves of this species collected in 1902. The second- 
aries are less numerous and more regularly arched than in New- 
berry’s Raritan leaves, 
VisuURNUM Linn. Sp. Pl. 267. 1753 
The American fossil forms which are referred to this genus 
number some forty-seven species, exclusive of seven varieties 
described by Lesquereux; two of these species occur in Spitz- 
bergen and one on the Island of Sachalin. They have the fol- 
lowing distribution: Raritan 1, which is obviously not a Viburnum ; 
Dakota 6, plus 7 varieties ; Patoot 3; Montana 4; Laramie 7 ; 
Denver 4; Eocene 2; Fort Union 17; Miocene of U. S. 2; 
of Greenland 3; Tertiary of Tongue River (Yellowstone Park) 3. 
Their distribution marks North America as the original home of 
the genus ; they reached Alaska in the Eocene and crossing the 
emerged belt where Behring Straits now stand, are found in the 
Eocene or Oligocene of Sachalin Island. Toward the north and 
€ast we find them in Greenland in the Senonian (Patoot) and in 
Spitzbergen in Heer’s “ Miocene,” which is Eocene or Oligocene. 
