48 Berry : Fossil flora from Cliffwood, Nfav Jersey 



ally referred a well preserved nutlet to Carpolithus virginicnsis Font, 

 although I was very doubtful at the time of there being any relation- 

 ship with Fontaine's species, which only occurs at a much lower hori- 

 zon. I am now convinced that the Cliffwood specimen is entirely 

 distinct, and much search shows that it greatly resembles the nuts 

 of our common Ostryavirginiana (Mill) Willd. So close is this 

 resemblance that I have decided to name the species as above. 



Leaves of the genus Ostrya have not been found in strata 

 earlier than the Tertiary, where three species have been found in 

 this coViVXxy and six or seven in Europe, ranging from the Eocene 

 upward. The interrupted distribution of the living species, e. g.^ 

 two in the eastern United States, one in Europe and Asia, and 

 another in Japan, taken In connection with the distribution of the 

 fossil species stamps the genus as an old one, very likely to occur 

 in the Cretaceous. ^ 



Carpolithus mattewanensis sp. nov. Plate 2, figure 7 



An elliptical, smooth, and hard seed or nutlet, slightly flat- 

 tened. Length about 4 mm., width 3 mm. Botanical relations 

 entirely unknown. 



H^planatic-n of plates i and 2 



Plate i 



Figure i. Undetermined cone. 



Figure 2. Microzamia (?) dubia sp. nov. 



Figure 3. Sequoia Reichefibachi (Gain.) Heer, staminate cone 



Figures 4, 5, 6. Pinns Andraei Coem. (?) 



PLATK 2 



Figure i. Celastrophyllum elegans Berry. 

 Figure 2. Diospyj-os primaeva Hear. 

 Figure 3. Lmtrus proteaefolia Lesq, 



Figures 4, 5. Magnolia speciosa Heer. 

 Figure 6. BetuUies popuUfolius Lesq. (?) 

 Figure 7, Carpolithus mattewanensis sp. nov. 

 Figure 8. ^ Phyllites cliffwood en sis sp. nov. 

 Figure 9. B^'achyphylhtm macrocarpuni Newb. 



