44 Berry: Fossil flora from Cliffwood, New Jersey 



f. i'^ IS sufficiently striking to render it reasonably sure that we 

 have here homologous remains. Two specimens, the larger of 

 which was subsequently lost, were obtained from the beach at 

 Cliffwood. 



Brachyphyllum macrocarpum Newb. Plate 2, figure 9 



Thuiles crassus Lesq. Cret. &; Tert. FI. 32. 1884. 



Brachyphyllum crassum Lesq. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 10: 34. 1887 (not B, 



F 



crassum Tenison-Woods, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales 7: 660. 1883) ; Fl. Dak. 

 Group, 32, //. 2.f. J. 1892. — Newb. Fl. Amboy Clays, 51. //. 7. f, 7-7. 1S96. 

 Brachyphylhaii sp., Knowlton, Bull. Geo!. Soc. Am. 8: 137, 140. 1897. 

 Brachyphylluni macrocarpum Newb, FL Amboy Clays, 51 (footnote). 1 896. 

 Knowlton, Bull. U. S. Geol. Surv. 152 : 51. 1898 ; 163 : 29. //. 4. f, 5, 6. 1900. 

 Hollick, Bull. N. Y, Bot. Gard. 3 : 406 //. 70./, ^, 5. 1904. 



This common' Dakota and Raritan species is represented by 

 the silicified portion of a branch 5 cm, long and 1.5 cm. in di- 

 ameter. The leaves are broken away on one side, showing that 

 they were 4 mm. in thickness. 



This species must be far less common in the Matawan forma- 



tion than it is in the Raritan, as it has not before been met with in 

 three years collecting at this locality. 



Brachyphylluni is a characteristic genus of the Triassic, Jurassic 



and Neocomian, the present species, which extends upward into 



the Montana formation, being the only American species which 



existed after the Lower Cretaceous. 



Sequoia gracillima (Lesq.) Newb. 



Cones of this species continue to be the most common fossils 

 from this horizon. They are of all sizes and degrees of preserva- 

 tion and are very characteristic objects. 



In view of the intimate relation between these Cliffwood clays 

 and the Raritan clays to the westward, it is remarkable that the 

 latter have not yielded a single specimen of this cone, which is so 

 excessively abundant at Cliffwood. This is satisfactory evidence 

 of the distinctness of the two formations. 



Previously recorded specimens have exceeded 10 cm. in length 

 and one large one collected this summer is 2.5 cm. in diameter. 



Sequoia Reichenbachi (Gein.) Heen Plate i, figure 3 



The specimen figured represents a staminate cone of this 



*Corda in Reuss, Verst. d. bohm. Kreidef, //. 46. f. i~io. 1845 



