Berry: Frora OF THE MATAWAN FORMATION 8] 
INCERTAE SEDIS 
TRICALYCITES PAPYRACEUS Newb. (PLATE I, FIGURE 4.) 
Tricalycites papyraceus Newb. ; Hollick, Bull. Torrey Club, ar : 63. pl. 180. ff. 
1(?),8 1894. 
A well defined organism of unknown affinity, dicotyledonous 
according to Hollick. Consists usually of a small nucleus with 
three membranous wings and is very common in the Raritan of 
New Jersey, occurring also on Staten and Long Islands, Chappa- 
quidick and Block Islands, also occurring in the Tuscaloosa for- 
mation of Alabama. From the Matawan I have obtained but a 
Single specimen of but one wing. Tricalycites is probably com- 
parable with the bracts so largely developed in some of the 
Juglandaceae and Betulaceae. 
CARPOLITHUS JUGLANDIFORMIS Berry. 
Carpolithus juglandiformis Berry, Bull. N. Y, Bot. Gard, 3: 100. fl. $6. Ff. 8. 
903. 
Canpotitins dubius Berry, Bull. N, Y. Bot. Gard. 3: 100. pl. 48. fi 7. 1903. 
The remains named by me Carpolithus juglandiformis in dry- 
ing and shrinking away from the matrix leave an impression 
exactly similar to that of Carpolithus dubius, showing that both 
appertain to the same plant and are the remains of nut-like fruit 
with a striated husk, the botanical affinity of which I have not 
been able to conjecture. They show considerable resemblance in 
a general way to what Newberry * calls Zricarpellites striatus, and 
which occur abundantly in the Raritan formation at Woodbridge, 
N. J. The Matawan remains fail to show any pointed apex and 
have not been found associated in threes, or with any indication 
of such association. Plate 46, figure 8 (Berry, /. c.) evidently hints 
at the internal structure but in too vague a manner for discussion. 
Coniferous Stem, (PLATE 5, FIGURE 5.) 
This is an interesting and unique specimen recalling the genus 
Lepidodendron of the Paleozoic. It represents a portion of a stem 
at the juncture of a branch, the leaf-scars of which were much 
hollowed out by decay before fossilization. 
Prof. Lester F. Ward, to whom the specimen was submitted, 
Suggested its possible relation to Cunninghamites, because of the 
latter’s abundance in the Matawan formation. 
* Newb. Fi. Amboy Clays, 132. p/. 46. f. g-13- 1896. 
