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Genus GEINITZIA Endlicher 

 [Synop. Conif., 1847, p. 280] 



GEINITZIA FORMOSA Heer 1 

 Plate LIV, Fig. 6 



Geinitzia formosa Heer, 1871, Kreidfl. v. Quedlinb. Neue Denks. Schw. 



Gesell., Bd. xxiv, No. 2, p. 6, pi. i, fig. 9; pi. ii. 



Geinitzia sp. Newberry. 1873, Proc. N. Y. Lye. Nat. Hist., 2d ser., p. 10. 

 Sequoia reichenbacM Lange, 1890 (ex parte), Zeits. Deutsch. Geol. Gesell., 



Bd. xlii, p. 770. 

 Geinitzia formosa Newberry, 1896, Mon. U. S. Geol. Survey, vol. xxvi, 1895, 



p. 51, pi. ix, fig. 9. 

 Sequoia gracillima Newberry, 1896, Ibidem, pi. ix, figs. 1-3 (non foliage 



description on p. 50). 

 Geinitzia formosa Hollick, 1897, Trans. N. Y. Acad. Sci., vol. xvi, p. 129, pi. 



xii, figs. 1, 2. 

 Sequoia reichenbachi ? Stanton and Knowlton, 1897, Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer., 



vol. viii, p. 137. 

 Geinitzia formosa Knowlton, 1900, Bull. U. S. Geol. Survey, No. 163, p. 28, 



pi. v, figs. 1, 2. 



Geinitzia formosa Berry, 1903, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Garden, vol. iii, p. 57. 

 Sequoia gracillima Berry, 1903, Ibidem, pi. xlviii, figs. 21, 22. 

 Sequoia gracillima Berry, 1904, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club, vol. xxxi, p. 69, 



pi. ii. 



Geinitzia formosa Berry, 1904, Ibidem, p. 68, pi. iv, figs. 2, 3. 

 Sequoia gracillima Berry, 1904, Amer. Geol., vol. xxxiv, pi. 15. 

 Sequoia gracillima Berry, 1905, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club, vol. xxxii, p. 44. 

 Sequoia gracillima Berry, 1906, Ibidem, vol. xxxiii, p. 165. 

 Sequoia gracillima Berry, 1906, Kept. State Geol of New Jersey for 1905, 



p. 139. 



Geinitzia formosa Berry, 1911, Bull. 3, Geol. Survey of New Jersey, p. 97. 

 Geinitzia gracillima Jeffrey, 1911, Bot. Gazette, vol. 1, pp. 21-27, pi. viii. 



Description. " Strobile ovato-cylindrici, squamis rachi validae spiral- 

 iter insertis, apice peltatis, disco concavo, margine crenato, toroso ; semina 

 sub quavis squama quatuor ( ?), squamarum stipite crasso inserta, striata. 



1 This species is said to be represented by Carpolithes hemlocinus of Schlot- 

 heim. See also a work by Ernst von Otto entitled, " Additamente zur Flora 

 des Quadergebirges in der Gegend um Dresden und Dippoldiswalde," etc., pt. 

 1, pi. v, figs. 1-3, 5, 6, 1852. 



This species probably includes the cones from the Raritan of Woodbridge, 

 New Jersey, identified by Newberry as Microzamia gibba (Reuss) Corda, Mon. 

 U. S. Geol. Survey, vol. xxvi, p. 45, pi. xii, figs. 6, 7, 1896. Berry, Bull. 3, Geol. 

 Survey of New Jersey, p. 78, 1911. 



