ART. 14. TERTIARY FOSSIL PLANTS FROM HAITI—BERRY. 3 
The locality W 185 F, which is considered of middle or upper Mio- 
cene age, contains the same Gymnogramme found at two other local- 
ities which are also referred to the Miocene. In the absence of 
clearly defined stratigraphic evidence I would be inclined to consider 
all three localities as of the same age. Although the present collections 
are not conclusive, I would be inclined to regard the few Miocene 
plants collected as pointing to late, rather than early Miocene age. 
In addition to the few species named and described in the follow- 
ing pages the Miocene beds at station 7544 contain several fragments 
of what appear to be a species of Terminalia, a palm ray, and frag- 
ments of six or eight species of dicotyledons which might be readily 
determinable if a described fossil flora was known from this general 
area and horizon. The collection from station 7542 contains frag- 
ments of lauraceous leaves suggesting the genus Nectandra, and a 
second distinctly lauraceous type is present at locality B 88 F. 
The flora described is too small to be of any especial significance. 
It is, perhaps, superfluous to point to its modern facies and tropical 
character. The nine species described, of which all but two are 
new, represent as many genera, seven families, and as many orders. A 
large number of forms that might reasonably be expected from the 
late Tertiary of this region are conspicuously absent, notably Legu- 
minosae and members of the mangrove association. This appears to 
mean two things, namely, the absence of tidal mud flats and river 
estuaries, and suggests sandy or rocky shores. All of the leaves 
enumerated are of strand plants and all are maceration resisting forms, 
indicating that the other normal members of the Tertiary strand 
flora failed of preservation, at least at the discovered localities. 
Family CHARACEAE. 
Genus CHARA Linnaeus. 
CHARA WOODRINGI, new species. 
This species is represented by numerous calcareous and very 
fragile oogonia. Oogonium circular in cross section; elliptical in 
profile, slightly fuller distad than proximad; almost twice as long 
as wide; somewhat variable in size, which ranges from 0.5 to 0.8 
millimeter in diameter, and from 0.75 to 1.25 millimeters in length. 
Proximal pole with a thin pentagonal calcareous plug which is fre- 
quently broken away. Apical pole consisting of the tips of the five 
cells which are enlarged and slightly thickened. The five cells of the 
wall make three revolutions, the spirals are hence low, and are 
roundly furrowed between the knife-edge extended keels of the cell 
margins. 
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