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It is also comparable to the several nominal species of Pliyllotcenia, a 

 monocotyledonous genus described by Saporta 1 from the Cenomanian of 

 Portugal and compared with Rhizocaulon, Bambusa, etc. 



Occurrence. KARITAN FORMATION. Drum Point Bailroad, Anne 

 Arundel County. 



Collection. Maryland Geological Survey. 



CONIFEROPHYTA 



CLASS GONIFERAE 

 order ARAUCARIALES 



Family ARAUCARIACEAE 



Genus DAMMARA Lamarck 

 [Encycl., t. ii, 1786, p. 259] 



DAMMARA CLIFFWOODENSIS Hollick 

 Plate LIV, Fig. 3 



Dammara cliffwoodensis Hollick, 1897, Trans. N. Y. Acad. Sci., vol. xvi, p. 



128, pi. xi, figs. 5-8. 

 Dammara cliffwoodensis Berry, 1903, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Garden, vol. iii, p. 61, 



pi. xlviii, figs. 8-11. 

 Dammara. cliffwoodensis Berry, 1904, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club, vol. xxxi, p. 



69, pi. i, fig. 11. 

 Dammara cliffwoodensis Berry, 1911, Ibidem, p. 400. 



Description. " Scales kite-shaped, abruptly narrowed from above the 

 middle downward, one and one-half inches long by one-half inch wide at 

 the top, abruptly short mucronate pointed, provided on inner surface with 

 numerous prominent resin glands and ducts which extend downward 

 almost if not quite to the base." Hollick, 1897. 



This species was described from the Magothy formation of New Jersey, 

 where it is very common, from which horizon it ranges upward into the 

 overlying Matawan formation. Eemains of this sort, closely resembling 

 the cone-scales of the modern species of Dammara, are widespread and 



1 Saporta, Fl. Foss. Portugal, 1894, pp. 216, 221, pi. xxxviii, figs. 6-8, 12, 13, 

 21; pi. xxxix, fig. 20. 



